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THE MATH COMPUTER LAB AND BASIC First Login: Login the first time by pressing Control-Alt-Delete and using your assigned account number and password. Saving Files: You will have to save all your files to the H drive or to the floppy A drive. Click ''File-Save As'', and double-click the drive on which you want to save your file. Running QuickBasic: Double-click the QuickBasic icon to start QuickBasic. Saving QuickBasic Files: You should save your QuickBasic files as text files. The math computer lab will not print them if you save them otherwise. After clicking "file-print'', check the "text" option before you save the file. Remember: As a DOS program, QuickBasic recognizes file names only up to eight letters long – so don't exceed this limit!! Printing QuickBasic Files: In the computer lab you must print your QuickBasic files through Notepad. Open Notepad, then open your QuickBasic file, and click "file-print". On your home computer you can print basic files directly from QuickBasic, but it does not work with the math computer lab network. Shutting Down: To shut down your computer, click the ''start'' button, then ''shutdown'', then check the option ''Close all programs and log on as a different user'', and finally click ''Yes''. (If you do not follow this procedure, the next person who uses that computer will be able to use your account.) Do not turn off the computer. Download QuickBasic: You can download QuickBasic 4.5 for your home computer from the website http://www.math.hawaii.edu/lab/197/ First create a new directory (or folder) on your C drive and name it "basic" – then download the file QB45ZIP.EXE from the above web site into this new directory. Next open Windows Explorer, go to the "basic" folder, and double-click the file you just downloaded – it will unzip itself into a bunch of other files. Since QuickBasic is a DOS program it must be run from a DOS window under Windows. Open a DOS window and enter "cd\basic" to get to the basic directory. Finally, enter "qb" to start QuickBasic. |