Typing Up

The reports must be prepared and submitted during the Lab session.

It is recommended that you use PFE to prepare the report. Do not use any wordprocessing package such as Write, or MS-Word etc.

It is recommended that you create the report file at the very start of the Lab session. Keep a PFE subwindow open for the file throughout the session. In this way you can add notes to it as you go along. This then minimises the work required to complete the report at the end of the session.

However: ensure that you save the report to disk every time you make any addition to it. Otherwise, if there is a power failure, or the PC crashes, you will lose all your notes up to that point.

In writing the report (and in preparing email messages in general) limit your lines to about 65 characters wide at most - anything wider than that is apt to cause problems at the receiving end.