Fetching the Student Diskettes

Objective:

Download and create the four student diskettes needed by your Windows 95 text. (See page 2 in your Windows 95 Advanced textbook for details.)

Steps to get the student data files:

You can do most of this work in Windows, without using DOS, except for steps 3-5.  You must use the correct DOS command line (specifying "-d") in step four.

1. Create a new folder named TEMP anywhere on your hard disk.  Do not create it on a floppy disk - there isn't enough room for all the files.

   You can create directory TEMP anywhere on the hard disk. You will delete it shortly.

2. Locate and download the 3572-5.exe program into that TEMP directory:

   You can get 3572-5.exe from either of these places on the Internet:

   ftp://ftp.course.com/course/Operating_Systems/3572-5.exe
   http://idallen.com/teaching/dat2333/00f/windows/3572-5.exe 

   Or, in the "courseware" NT share at Algonquin look for this file:

   \alleni\DAT2333-00F\3572-5.exe

   The "courseware" share is on server WOODROFFE-13.

   Get one copy of the 3572-5.exe program into your TEMP directory.

3. Start up a DOS window.

   Get help if you don't know how to start a DOS window.

4. In the DOS window, change into the TEMP directory you created in Step 1.

   This TEMP directory should only have the 3572-5.exe file in it.

   Delete everything from the TEMP directory except the 3572-5.exe file.

5. In the DOS window, execute the downloaded program with a command line argument of "-d", like this:

   C:\TEMP> 3572-5.exe  -d

   Don't forget the "-d".  There is a blank between the "-d" and the program name.

   If you see this question: Overwrite (y/n)? then you forgot the "-d". Erase everything and start over at Step 1.

6. In the DOS window, execute just once the DOS batch file LONGNAME.BAT that is now in the TEMP directory.  This DOS batch file will produce no output when you run it.  Run it like this:

   C:\TEMP> LONGNAME.BAT
   C:\TEMP>

   Make sure there are no errors.  Note: If you run the batch file a second time, it will generate many error messages about not being able to find files.  The batch file renames all the files from their DOS short names to their Windows long names.  If you try to run it a second time, it won't be able to find the files by their short names.  You only need to run this batch file one time.

7. Go to page 2 in your Windows 95 Advanced textbook and follow the instructions for copying the contents of the four Disk directories onto four empty floppy disks.  You can do this copying in Windows; you might find that easier than learning the DOS commands to do it.  Make sure you copy the contents of the four Disk directories, not the directories themselves.
   
8. Make backup copies of your four floppy disks.
   
9. Erase the TEMP directory and everything inside it.