Conclusion

That completes the exercise. As previously explained, the formal lab report, which you have prepared during the session, must now be submitted by email.

Carry out the following procedure to submit your report. You need to allow at least the last 15 minutes of the lab session for this.

• Read quickly back through the report, correcting obvious errors, and possibly adding some brief concluding remarks.

• Close the PFE subwindow.

• Using File Manager, make a copy of the report file in the directory lab3 on your diskette. This gives you a permanent copy of the report as a precaution against it somehow getting lost or corrupted in the mail system.

• Using Eudora, bring up a new message window to prepare to email the report.

• Fill in the To: field as:

      softeng1-95-reports@mjmail.eeng.dcu.ie

  Its a good idea to also include yourself as an additional recipient (in the Cc: field) so that you get positive feedback that the message successfully went into the mail system.

• Fill in the subject of the message as simply "Session 3 Report".

• To include the report file in the message, drop down the Message menu and select Attach File. This will bring up a file selection dialog. Select the file where you have saved the report (D:softeng1report.txt).

• BEWARE: Eudora has several possible mechanisms for "attaching" files to a message, depending on the type of data in the file (e.g. whether it is simply ASCII text, or some kind of word processing format or whatever). Only one of them will work correctly for your lab reports. If you get this wrong in the lab exam, the report will not be correctly submitted and you will score zero.

  The correct mechanism in this particular case is for Eudora to simply include the text from the file as part of the text of the message. It will do this if the button on the message window marked "TEXT->DOC" is out or deselected. Check this now, and make sure the button is in the correct state.

• Press Send to send the message.

• If you have included yourself as an additional recipient, then you should receive a copy back. Wait about 30 seconds and then check this.

This submitted report should be automatically archived on the school Web site, under the archives for the softeng1-95-reports mailing list. However, this will only happen after the report has been previewed and approved by the moderator, which should normally be within a couple of hours. You should make a point of checking whether your report appears correctly in the archives in due course. If not, do not submit it again. First, post a message on the softeng1-95 list, querying what has happened.