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Copyright © 2006-2012 – Curt Hill
Windows Files to Hand-In
And other things you should know
Windows• The design and evolution of Windows
is to make the computer more user friendly
• It is intended for the– Computer illiterate– Computer semi-literate– And not for the computer sophisticated
• Developers are supposed to be able to see through the lies that Windows tells us
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Developers• Those who:
– Design, write, test and document programs
• Developers use programs to make programs– Programs are also known as applications
• The person who designs a car must know more about the car and the highway than those who merely drive– Same with applications
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Does Windows really lie?• The desktop is the root of the
computer– Actually the desktop is a subdirectory on
the C disk
• Documents (files) are the center of the world– The files are worthless without an
application to manipulate them
• It also conceals files that we are interested in
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Files• Files need three pieces to identify
them• Directory – this includes the drive• File name• Extension• Windows Explorer or My Computer
will hide the extension by default• We need to expose it
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Explorer Selecting Tools
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The View Tab
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CheckBox• The important check box is labeled:
Hide extensions for known file types• By default it is checked• This means that most of you will
send me one or more files that I do not need and not send me the ones needed
• Unchecking it is persistant
wxDev-C++• There are lots of files
– 9 in the main directory– More in the two subdirectories
• The easiest way is to zip the entire directory and email it
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The Process• Have Dev-CPP show the directory• Select directory with Windows
Explorer• Right click and choose Send to
Compressed file• It will then compress it
– The file allows a rename when done
• Consider the following screens
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Finding Directory
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Zipping Directory (1)
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Zipping Directory (2)
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The zip file
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Directories• The dialog may ask you where the
file is stored• Attach this to an email to me• This also works in the debugging
process
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Addendum on Executables• The spam and malware filters are
getting better and better• Prior to 2012 they would always
remove a .EXE from email• Now they actually scan .ZIP files and
remove entire file if it contains one executable
• How do we get around this?
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Removing executables• Prior to the zip operation delete the
executable or its directory• In Dev-CPP this is the Output
directory– Just delete the entire directory– The next time you run it will rebuild it
• This may be different between VCSU and WSC– WSC will pass through a stiffer spam
filter
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