ICS 80W Homework 1 Sample Check-off Exercises

Exercise 1: Restore your Netscape environment.

• Copy the Netscape configuration files "MCOM-bookmarks.html", "Global History", and "Netscape Preferences" from your floppy disk to the appropriate directory on the Macintosh.
• Start Netscape and verify that you are using your own bookmark list.

Exercise 2: Publish your bookmarks.

• In Netscape, export your bookmarks to a file on your floppy disk called book.html
• Use Fetch to put a copy of that file into the "public_html" directory of your account on Clyde.
• Use NCSA Telnet to log in to clyde.ics.uci.edu, and use the command "publish.www" to make all the files in your Web area readable.
• View your Web area by opening the URL "http://www.ics.uci.edu/~account" (where "account" is the name of your account on Clyde).
• Add this to your list of bookmarks.
• Select the link "book.html" to view your bookmark list in this new form.

Exercise 3: Preserve your current Netscape environment.

• Use the "Save Options" feature then quit Netscape.
• Copy the Netscape configuration files "MCOM-bookmarks.html", "Global History", and "Netscape Preferences" to your floppy disk from the appropriate directory on the Macintosh.

Exercise 4: Electronic mail using Pine

• Send a message to somebody in your address book. Subject: "checkoff"
• Add aisi@ics.uci.edu to your address book.
• What command is used to reply to a mail message?
• What command is used to forward a mail message to someone else?
• Display a list of your current folders.