Footnotes

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You will not be able to receive email for the time being. That will be dealt with in subsequent lab sessions.
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If you enter this address manually, omit the quotation marks. But, in this particular case, you can just click on the address and Netscape should bring up a mail composition window, already addressed to the correct address, and with your name and return address automatically recorded.
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And your message is now - immediately - accessible to the entire world wide Internet community!
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Select New on the File menu.
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Select Save on the File menu. This will bring up a file selection dialog. On this you need to specify a disk drive - A: for the diskette - and the file name.
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Select Open on the File menu. This will bring up a file selection dialog again.
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This will serve to identify your particular file when you come to print it out in the next step.
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Select Print on the File menu.
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If you manage this successfully, you should be able to see the new directory listed by File Manager - for example as D:MYDIR or whatever.
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To achieve this you need two (sub-)windows open in File Manager - one showing the contents of A:TMP, the other showing D:MISC. Then just drag the file TESTING.TXT across.
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You may find it convenient to make this the default for Eudora. Drop down the Special menu and select Settings. Scroll down through the categories and select Attachments. Put a cross in the box marked Put text attachments in body of message. Now, whenever you bring up a new message window, the "TEXT->DOC" button will be deselected by default.
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Note that, once you are viewing the program file in Netscape, you can use the Save as... option on the File menu of Netscape to save a copy of the program in some suitably named file on your PC.
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The assignment operator also technically generates an "evaluation result", just as any of the other operators do. This evaluation result will be the value of the right hand operand - i.e. the same value as is stored in the variable named as the left hand operand. This allows an assignment operation to be nested within a more complex expression. That is sometimes useful, but its use is beyond the scope of the current session.
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The circumference is given by the mathematical formula ; the area by the formula .
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Note again that, once you are viewing the program file in Netscape, you can use the Save as... option on the File menu of Netscape to save a copy of the program in some suitably named file on your PC.
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Technically, under the various idealizing assumptions we have made, it can be shown that the trajectory will be parabolic.
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This change will be negative, because is negative; to put that another way, what goes up must come down!
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If you really want to know, "ASCII" is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

McMullin@eeng.dcu.ie
Tue Apr 30 14:15:37 GMT 1996