Computer Science 1300
Essential Computer Skills

    Announcements:

 1.  Email again:  In class, I mentioned that if you use Netscape Messenger from a lab machine, you might want to set it up to store your messages on a floppy rather than on the lab machine's hard drive (since otherwise if you read your mail from the lab machine, the messages will be transferred to that machine's hard drive and you won't be able to access them from elsewhere on campus).  Here's a different solution that you may prefer to carrying a floppy around:  if you check your mail from a lab machine using Netscape Messenger, first select Preferences under the Edit menu.  That should bring up the dialog box below.  Select Mail & Groups, then Mail Server.  Then make sure, under "Mail Server Type," that the box "Leave messages on server after retrieval" is checked.  That way the messages will still be available on the server when you access them from your home machine.
 


 

2.  CBT training modules:  I'm working on how you can get access to these.  I hope to have something to report by Thursday.

    Class Summary:

More on Windows:  Navigation:  Hierarchical directory structure.  Exploring the directory structure by double-clicking on drive and folder icons; using Windows Explorer.  Comparison of navigation in Windows 95 or NT and in Unix.

Finding files or folders by using the "Find" tool, which can be accessed from the Start menu.

 
More on email:
 
Setting up Outlook, Outlook Express.
Setting up Netscape Messenger.
(Next time:  a look at Pine.)
 
CBT training modules:  We had a look at these to see how they work.  We then discovered that our student guinea pig didn't seem to have access to them!  I'll try to make progress on this for next time.

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