Tricks
 

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No, sorry, this is not the oldest profession hint page. These are 
tricks of the PC trade and little things.

On one note, I agree with Albert - "If God had intended man to remember
everything, he would not have let us invent books. I write things down
so I do not have to remember them!"

Job interview stuff:
Q: What is a code 13 on a printer?
 A:  They want to hear a paper jam and it would be displayed on screen.
 MS: My answer is, if you have these codes memorized you have too much
	time on your hands to do that. You need to know what kind of
	printer it is (make, model, etc.) before you can even gleam a
	clue. Past that, printers share some codes but you really
	should not assume the code is the same in all makes.

MSDOS
Q: How do you stop the automatic start-up of MSDOS?
 A:  You press F8 and you will be prompted with Y or N for each step.

What do these do? :
Echo Test			A: Will display the word Test
Type Test			A: Bad command unless a file named test
Echo ^L>PRN			A: Sends previous output to printer
Echo Test >D:\KLM\Temp.Txt	A: Echoes Test into dir & file shown
Type Test.Txt>PRN		A: If Test.Txt exists it will print out
Set DIRCMD=/P			A: Set DIRCMD with variable of /P
Set COPYCMD=/Y			A: Set COPTCMD with variable of /Y

Q: In ATTRIB s -s r -r h -h a -a do what to a file? How are the used?
 A: ATTRIB [parameters] C:\DIR\File.Ext 
	S = System, R = Read only, H = Hidden, A = Archive
	If you place a "-" in front this will disable the feature.

Q: How do you load TSRs, etc. high in your Config.Sys & Autoexec.Bat?
 A: Config.sys 		Load DeviceHigh
    Autoexec.bat	LH or LoadHigh

Windows
If you are still running Windows 3.1 or 3.11 I would advise going to
Windows for Workgroups 3.11. The performance is better and the modules
are much more stable.

Q: What are the standard combination keys for Cut, Copy, & Paste?
 A: Ctrl + X, Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V  -  Ctrl + P is great for print.

Windows95
Q:  If the screen saver in Windows95 locks or hangs what do you do?
 A:  You can make sure the system is configured correctly. If you do
	your job right to begin with it won't happen. If you need to
	do it press CTRL+ALT+DELETE to bring up the Task Manager and
	close the offending module. Finally you can also press ALT+ESC
	to bring up the Start menu.

Q: How do you preserve long file names when transferring files from
	one system to another system?
 A: If it is via diskette, use the Explorer to maintain them.
	Under Novell, you will need to load the OS/2 longname NLM so
	that the network understands to keep it all.

Q: How do you know which version (BUILD) of Win95 is running? How do
	you find out if the latest patches have been added?
 A: Under Start\ Settings\ Control Panel\ System you will find the
	system settings (This is the about box for Win95). You will see
	what version you are running.

Novell
Q: When you load Novell 3.12 there are a bunch of things that are now
	automated in the newer versions. What are the regular steps.
 A:  Prepare the hard drive and have your two partitions. The first
	should be set at about 10MB just to load some extra DOS
	programs. (more)

Hardware
Q: What is the optimum size for a partition?
 A: 420MB - The cluster size makes the difference between used and
    wasted space on your hard drive.


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