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PROBLEM REPORT ON RESULTS.EXE - CNE Assessment Test V2.0,V2.1 Results
Eric J.G. Bonnell 73500,3250 March 19, 1992
Well, there seem to be some problems - some of them are fixable, some of
them are a pain in the neck. But none are beyond explanation...
PROBLEM #1 : I've been told that those who have used the RESULTS file have had
a problem getting output. There are two scenarios, yet one quick
fix.
A) No data just a report header in RESULTS.RPT.
B) Data present, no questions, and a 0 out of 0
percentage.
Stupid, but true. The sum of the letters in my first name and
last name is 12 characters (if you count a space in between).
- If your name sums up to more than 12 characters, you are a
member of group A. Cut your name down to 12 characters.
If you have a Turbo Pascal compiler and wish to change
the length of the name field, edit the constant definition
for Preamble to reflect the size you wish (now it is
assigned to #$0C (that's 12 in hex). Until other people
started to use RESULTS, I assumed (wrong!) that this value
was a unique identifier for the start of a new record (all
MY records always started with an ASCII 0Ch, so....).
- For those of you whose names are less than 12 characters,
you are members of group B. Pad your name with some ALPHABETIC
symbols (ONLY USE 'A' thru 'Z' to be safe) to make it 12
characters long, or recompile the code with the above patch.
So, it should be 12 characters including the space between names
which is understood. (i.e. "ERIC BONNELL"). Sorry.
PROBLEM #2 : Course description. I take the raw data out of the CNE~RSP.DAT
which only specifies course number and test section number. I
agree fully, it would be nice to see "V2.2 System Manager"
instead of 501, however, I decided to try and keep it simple
and not worry about Novell rearranging their courses again.
I wanted the code to be flexible enough to span as many versions
of the test I could, so generic is best.
PROBLEM #3 : This is a biggie, unfortunately, there's nothing I can do about
it short of asking Novell to incorporate my extensions into
its CNE Assessment Test itself.
As I read the data file, I only can tell positionally which
questions are correct (and if they are I can't tell your
answer) or if the are incorrect (in which case I know your
response from the data).
However, I understand that the questions are shuffled every
time the test is taken - I cannot tell the order in which
they appear from the data file (at least not yet, there's
plenty of data which still remains gibberish even to me and
problably will for a while more). So, this program still
takes a lot of bookkeeping on your part. If anyone can figure
how the question files are indexed to the response data file,
we may be in business in that department.
PROBLEM #4 : Compuserve takes care of it's data libraries. It takes some time
for data files to be placed on-line (I guess they screen them
pretty well for your protection. The result is that it can be
days before a file is ready to be downloaded from when it is
submitted. So to check dates of the file for accuracy, check
the author's message during the unpacking processs to the
verbose listing of the files within. they should match (I think).
So, that is the problems. Here are some concerns and further advise for
you all.
- If you have CNE Assessment Test V2.0 and RESULTS V1.0. you should be okay
(assuming you've read above).
- If you have CNE Assessment Test V2.1, get RESULTS V2.11. That is the most up
to date.
- RESULTS V2.10 should work, but V2.11 provides further error checking
(i.e. FILE NOT FOUND and division by zero errors).
- The latest files on Comuserve are CNE Assessment Test V2.0 and RESULTS
V2.11. I got V2.1 of the Test from Novell (thanx, Marcus!). I don't
know if I am at liberty to give V2.1 out.
- Any further concerns can be sent to me.
One last thing, THANK YOU all who contributed to the debugging of this
project. I didn't think that this program could have gotten this big, but
I'm happy it has been received well. I hope it has helped some (I, myself,
have 5 tests left to take...). So, THANK YOU for your support and comments:
Marcus Williamson
Alex Kislyakov
Roswell Broussard
Cathy
John Noffsinger
Larry Brunetti
David Blake
Richard Beels