Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 20:48:51 GMT Server: NCSA/1.5 Content-type: text/html Last-modified: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 00:04:25 GMT Content-length: 1696 Windows

The Windows operating system

This page is under construction.

Some of these comments are unique to our particular site, especially considering our networking set-up.

File names in DOS must follow the 8 dot 3 convention. This means that a filename in DOS (and by extention Windows) must have at most eight characters in the main section of the file name, and a three character extention, which usually describes the type of the file. This is a peculiarity of DOS, so if you are used to using another operating system (for example Macintoshes or UNIX machines), this may be a little unusual. An example of a legal file name is prog0001.cpp. Two illegal filenames are program25.cpp and prog0001.cppp.

When in the File Manager and attempting to copy (for example) the prog0.dat file, if you drag the file from the TA's directory and drop it onto the U: drive icon, it will copy the file into current directory for the U: drive...which is usually the Windows directory. This leads to problems because our programs are looking for files to be in the root directory.

Make sure to close down windows before leaving the lab, otherwise, you will remain logged in. This means someone else can muck around with your stuff!


Last modified: Sun Jan 29 18:04:24 1995 by Michael Lee
michaell@cs.wisc.edu

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