CS 80.13: Windows Command Line

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Adjunct Instructor, Computer & Information Sciences Department
Santa Rosa Junior College, California
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Message List Input

Message Archive
Page last updated 17 August, 2009

Win-Cmd Message List Guide


Posting a Message
· Win-Cmd Message Input

Replying
· Win-Cmd Archive

Contacting Your Instructor

How To Read The List Archives

More Message List Help

Private Replies

In this course, we use a message list, Win-Cmd, to ask questions about homework and lecture, share information, and discuss course content.  If you would raise your hand in a classroom about it, post it to this message list.  Here are some guidelines.

Posting a Message

To post a new message, use the web input page, instead of your email program.  You'll need to enter your CATE user name and password to reach the form.  If you don't remember it, use the CATE Password Reminder page.

Begin your Subject line with your 4-digit section number, and then a headline for your question or comment.  You and everyone else in the course will receive a copy of the message by email.

Replying

However, you cannot reply or send a message to the list from your email program. To reply to a previous message, use the web archive page.

Contacting Your Instructor

If you need a response from your instructor, and it's the sort of question for which you'd raise your hand in a classroom, send a message to the unix-intro list, making the Subject line start with your four-digit section number.

If the issue is personal or private, please send a separate e-mail message directly to your instructor's e-mail address.

Please put only low-priority messages in a lab answer form's "Comments and Suggestions" section. Normally, your instructor only reads them when the time comes to score everyone's labs in a batch. Therefore, please expect a response to a lab form question (if any) to take days or weeks, and that the response will only appear in the online gradebook. If you need something sooner, please use one of the approaches above.


How To Read The List Archives

To get previous messages that you may have missed (including a copy of one of your own postings, if you didn't receive it back), go to the Message List Archives.  You'll need to enter your CATE user name and password.

More Message List Help

For more guidance, please see the general Message List Help page.

Private Replies

If you try to just use your email "Reply" function to send a private reply to someone's message on the Unix-Intro list, it just sends to a private account owned by your instructor.

How do you make a private reply to someone else?  Here are two ways:

1. Reply to the message as usual, BUT then erase the unix-intro address in the "To:" header, and then copy and paste the real address of your intended recipient.

- or better -

2. Don't even reply at all! Instead, make a new blank message, copy & paste your recipient's address into the new "To:" header, and proceed. That way, you don't have to remember to erase the unix-intro address, and you avoid treating your instructor to inadvertently interesting personal details...

 Apropos, please see also "E-Mail Vigilance: Avoiding Disaster" from "Sending Files By Web"


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