UCI ICS 80W, Homework 1

By 30 June, you and all members of your team are expected to be able to do all the things outlined below. We will do the formal check-off on Thursday and Friday (29-30 June.)

The first thing to do is to read this entire assignment before beginning work on any part of it.

Basic skills you will need on the Macintosh:

World-Wide Web via Netscape

You should be able to handle (and understand) the nine picture-buttons along the top of the Netscape window, as well as the following features accessible through Netscape's menus.

• File: Concentrate on New Window, Open Location, Save As;
• Edit: Find... and Find Again;
• View: everything;
• Go: everything;
• Options: Concentrate on Show Toolbar, Show Location, Show Directory Buttons, Auto Load Images;
• Directory: this will be covered later
• Bookmarks: everything, with special attention to building (and editing) your own list of bookmarks. You may wish to begin with choices such as the following:
  • http://www.ics.uci.edu/
  • http://www.ics.uci.edu/~aisi/
  • http://www.ics.uci.edu/~aisi/80W/
  • http://www.w3.org/
  • http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/
  • http://thomas.loc.gov/
  • http://www.yahoo.com/
  • http://www.yahoo.com/Education/Universities/United_States/
  • http://phwww.cwis.uci.edu/cgi-bin/phwww
  • http://www.directory.net/
• Help: Handbook is worth exploring a bit.

The most important things here are

1. to become familiar with the various options,
2. to start building your own personal bookmark list, and
3. to be able to use the Open Location fluently.

NOTE: You must position the mouse inside type-in windows such as Open Location and Find use. You can click the mouse or use the arrows to reposition the cursor within the window, but (beware) the Macintosh delete key deletes to the left of where the cursor is within the window. So to edit strings in type-in windows, one typically must use a button click or arrow keys to position the cursor to the left of where the insertion is to be made or to the right of a desired deletion.)

Preserving and Restoring your Netscape Environment

You should be able to locate your Global History, Bookmarks.html, and Netscape Preferences files, and be able to move them in both directions between the Macintosh's Netscape Preferences directory (the System Preferences Netscape folder) and your floppy disk.

• Open System, Preferences, and Netscape folders, to find the Netscape Preferences, Global History, and Bookmarks.html files.
• Open your floppy disk "volume" (it behaves like an independent folder)
• Drag unwanted files into the Trash
• Drag files to be copied from source to destination. (You can use shift-clicking or click+drag lassoing to group files for moving all at the same time.)
• Empty the Trash

Fetch

You should know how to transfer files both ways between the Macintosh and your account on clyde.ics.uci.edu You should be familiar with choosing the directory for the source and destination files in both places.

• Open Connection to clyde.ics.uci.edu
• Get File (in Text mode) to move files from clyde to the Macintosh.
• Put File (in Text mode) to move files from the Macintosh to clyde.
• Close Connection

NCSA Telnet

You should be able to connect and login to clyde.ics.uci.edu

Basic skills you will need on clyde.ics.uci.edu:

E-mail with Pine: (Here's where you know you need to work with your fellow team members.)

• Compose and send new e-mail messages.
• Read, reply to, forward, and refile ("Save") e-mail messages you receive.
• Export an e-mail message you receive to the file system (i.e., copy it to a file on clyde.ics.uci.edu.)
• Include into an e-mail message you send the contents of a file read in from the file system (i.e., a file on clyde) using Pine's "Read File" function.
• Create and update an e-mail address book of the names an e-mail addresses of those with whom you are likely to correspond (e.g., members of your ICS 80W team).

File and directory creation, manipulation and editing:

• Directory operations:
  • mkdir (make a directory)
  • cd (change current/default/working directory)
  • pwd (print current/default/working directory)
  • ls (list a directory), including the following options:
    • ls -l (list long/detailed version),
    • ls -a (list all files, including ones normally hidden)
    • ls -la (both options together)
    • ls -lt (list with details in chronological order)
• File operations:
  • ls (as above, for directories),
  • mv (move/rename)
  • cp (copy)
  • create and edit -- pico is the recommended editor for class

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