EnigmA Amiga Run 1995 November/EnigmA AMIGA RUN 02 (1995)(G.R. Edizioni)(IT)[!][issue 1995-11][Skylink CD].iso/earcd/misc/noahsarc.lha/Noahs.Arc/Part10

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                               THE TEST:

  So...you thought you could sneak out before test time, eh??  Thought no
one would notice if you just kind of shuffled off out the back door there,
did ya?  Well!!!  You just park your little butt right down, haul out a
pencil and prove to us both right here and now whether you deserve to wear
the prestigious title "computer operator" or not.

  I know you're still new to this, and may not feel up to a test just yet,
but rest assured, you probably know more than you give yourself credit for.

  Most of the questions will be pretty straightforward, such as:

  23. If BMFLAG rootblock EX_MAP overlays <string> MASK2, then OVERLINK <x>
      bitmaps will OFFSET <absep> = |label|END.

                  a. True                      b. False

so I don't think we'll have any problems.  And if you feel the need to use
the books, hey, I understand..I've been there too.  Also, your Amiga may not
be powerful enough for some of the calculations involved, so my best advice
would be to turn off the monitor before each large calculation so as to con-
serve as much power as possible, as well as making sure the fridge doesn't
go on and the doorbell doesn't ring.

  After that, we'll..ha ha, just kidding.  Just a little pre-test.

  Actually, you can't use the books OR the computer.  This is a TEST, you
knuckleheads, not a book report!


Rules:

  a. Anything goes
  b. Spelling counts
  c. No writing in the margins
  d. There's probably only one correct answer per question
  e. No getting mad at me if you miss an easy one and I call you a jackass















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1.  The numeric keypad, way over to the right there, is used for:

  A) Couldn't begin to tell ya

  B) Whatever the number keys are used for, it's virtually identical

  C) Tetrix, Flight Simulator, Gunship, maybe a few others

  D) Spreadsheets used by yuppies

  E) Interfacing with the 1020 math co-processor



2.  As well as our diskettes, the Amiga can also use the old-style five and
    a half inch disks quite adequately with no additional equipment except
    the drive:

  A) This is true

  B) No, you need an additional power supply

  C) No, you need another power supply, separate device driver, and a
     modulator box, like the Supra 890

  D) Hey, wait a minute...



3.  "CLI" stands for:

  A) Command Line Interpreter

  B) Command Link (to) Intuition

  C) Commodore Line Interpreter

  D) Commodore Link Interlink

  E) Command Line Interface

  F) A and E



4.  "Multitasking" means:

  A) Doing lots of stuff at once

  B) Employing the CLI to perform a function from Intuition, and a program
     using two of the libraries or devices at the same time.

  C) Two users operating out of the same Workbench environment, often using
     the commands Ask, Skip and Lab in the st-seq to differentiate who is who

  D) Running the same program in the background behind itself



5.  We:  Copy x nil:
         Copy nil: >prt:

  A) This works, assuming we've installed the nil.library in libs

  B) This copies file x to the printer

  C) This copies directory x to the printer

  D) This just plain ol' won't work



6.  Say uses both the translator.device and the narrator.library, which
    take up about 35K of memory.  Sweep or Flush gets this memory back.

  A) Sounds good to me!

  B) What are ya, some kind of nut?

  C) Sorry, you only get about half the memory back

  D) This only works with SloMem unless you run FastMemFirst last



7.  The Trashcan is:

  A) Essentially valueless

  B) User-friendly in the extreme

  C) Cute filler-space for the Workbench window

  D) A computer first and, hopefully, last

  E) All of the above



8.  A Project differs from a Tool in that:

  A) A Project always uses the project.handler

  B) Tools always have an even-numbered number of bytes, Projects odd

  C) Projects need Tools, but Tools don't need Projects

  D) A Project involves a scriptfile and an IconX-type program to run it



9.  To find out the size of a file, you use the command:

  A) Dir

  B) Info

  C) List

  D) Status

  E) Assign

  F) Path



10.  We have a 10,000-byte textfile called BookList and we want to print
     just the last 3,000 bytes.  We:

  A) Use the CLI command "Copy BookList#?/-3000 prt:"

  B) Ed the file and "WB"prt:"

  C) Use the CLI command "Join opt r -7000 BookList >prt:"

  D) In a CLI, type "Copy Ed:BookList >prt: 3000 last"



11.  The command Redraw, from the Workbench title bar:

  A) May be one of those secret, valuable tools no one knows about

  B) Aligns all selected icons in a window along the same horizontal and
     vertical axes.

  C) Distributes all selected icons in a window to their furthest points
     from each other and the window's edges.

  D) Is probably the most useless thing ever invented



12.  For greatest long-term accuracy, it's always best to use the Digital
     Clock instead of the Analog, because analog isn't as accurate:

  A) This is true because the analog Clock uses clock hands, which means
     graphic usage, thus slowing down the processor.  It's even more
     noticeable when the Clock is dragged out to its largest size

  B) While granting that analog isn't as accurate as digital, the difference
     would probably be unnoticeable unless you left them running a few days

  C) Yes, the analog clock's speed can be affected by multitasking large
     programs, but the digital clock is unnaffected

  D) I know it SOUNDS right...but it just doesn't FEEL right!



13.  The text curser is:

  A) That little gold block the letters come out of

  B) That block marker at the bottom of Ed

  C) That block the pointer turns into when using a word processor

  D) That blockhead yelling at the monitor!



14.  You can squeeze how many characters on one line in Ed:

  A) 78

  B) 79

  C) 80

  D) 101

  E) 255



15.  Let's say you've got IconEd in the Utilities drawer, you load it up,
     make a snazzy icon, and want to save it to the System drawer.  In the
     Save box, you type "System/MyIcon", then Save Image:

  A) Yes, that'll save the little rascal as "MyIcon.info"

  B) No, it'll just save it as "MyIcon"

  C) No, you're both wrong..it'll save it as "System/MyIcon.info"

  D) Sorry, kid, it's Error Message time



16.  Two good things about the Trashcan are that it can't be moved into
     another directory, or deleted.  This is often useful because:

  A) Sometimes there aren't times when you won't have to not make sure you
     might make a mistake or not.

  B) This is the only thing that will override the Protect RWED feature

  C) You can activate another drawer's icon, then also the Trashcan icon,
     then Empty Trash, and it only empties the contents of the other drawer,
     but not the actual drawer.

  D) It keeps you from accidentally deleting every file on your disk

  E) None of the above



17.  One of these is bound to work:

  A) Edit demo #?

  B) Rename Files:test.me Files#?:

  C) #?Copy#? all

  D) Dir #?/#?/#? all

  E) So you say!



18.  If we "dir fonts df0:t", we:

  A) Have created a monster

  B) Have renamed the file's font to df0:t/font

  C) Have typed the dir'd fonts, copying to df0 at the same time

  D) Have dir'd the typed fonts, deleting from df0 at the same time

  E) Have all but ruined your chances of passing this test



19.  You should wrap a piece of grounded aluminum foil around the connectors
     going into the back of the Amiga because:

  A) It greatly reduces line interference, glitches and kludges

  B) It protects the Amiga from random static electricity created by the
     monitor

  C) It prevents accidental food or drink spills from getting on the
     cable ends, the most common cause of computer failure

  D) None of the above

  E) All of the above

  F) Hey, I thought this test was gonna be hard!



20.  The custom chip Fat Agnus:

  A) Uses a double bit-blitter in conjunction with the parallax processor

  B) Generates all system clocks from the 360 Mhz oscillator

  C) Controls high-speed animation

  D) Displays the Unsynchronized Co-processor

  E) Hey, I thought this test was gonna be easy!!



 21.  Using a hex editor on the ROM is:

  A) An excellent way to put your name of the top line of the st-seq

  B) More permanent than using Preferences

  C) What the Edit command is for

  D) The only way to access the graphics.device

  E) Probably none of the above


22.  We discussed how the Pause key is used by various keys in different
     programs, from the ESC key to hitting the mouse buttons.  What's the
     Pause key for the Workbench?

  A) Help

  B) ESC-ESC

  C) RMB

  D) ENTER (numeric keypad)

  E) left and right arrows together


23.  Running SlowMemLast will:

  A) Degrade your machine to 68000 Mode

  B) Enable the intuition.library

  C) Be the opposite of FastMemFirst

  D) Give you twice as much graphic memory


24.  The Workbench is:

  A) A graphical interface

  B) An iconized link to Intuition

  C) An environment

  D) A platform

  E) A screen

  F) All of the above



25.  One problem with DOS is that it isn't "user-friendly" like Workbench,
     so if we Rename or Copy a file over to one that's already there, it
     wipes out the original:

  A) Hey, that's one of the first things we learned!

  B) This is true, but not in Ram

  C) It won't if you use the command "Copy (fromfile) (tofile) opt c"

  D) Hey wait a minute, there's somethin' fishy here...



26.  One slick undocumented trick is to have a Bench in df1 loaded with JUST
     the stuff you want in Ram..then after booting up you simply take the df1
     icon and drop it onto the Ram icon, which copies it over quickly and
     cleanly without a long, involved startup-sequence:

  A) Hey, I didn't know that!

  B) This is true, but the trick is you have to remove the "SYS:System/Disk-
     Copy" from the disk's Default Tool box in the Info window

  C) This works, but you have to rename the Ram disk to something else first

  D) Sorry, buddy..disks are of incompatible type and cannot be copied


27.  As it turned out, I was quite wrong about SetMap and it has a vital
     purpose after all:

  A) The keymaps also incorporate part of the printer driver sequence, so
     your printer won't operate completely correctly without them

  B) The keymaps also incorporate part of the Alternate key sequences, so
     they won't print right otherwise

  C) It was designed to run after LoadWb in the startup-sequence and makes
     the disk-thrashing much quieter

  D) The USA1 keymap is the "International" keymap, so BBS's, for instance,
     are all compatible

  E) Just kidding



28.  The term "booting up" comes from:

  A) The expression "pull yourself up by the bootstraps"

  B) The first thing you do when you finish dressing is put your boots on

  C) The "boot block" is a part of ROM

  D) There is no derivation in this case

  E) Possibly some of the above



29.  Which of these is NOT a device:

  A) RAW:

  B) COM:

  C) SER:

  D) PRT:

  E) DF2:

  F) DH0:



30.  Which of these does anything at all:

  A) Date < now.date

  B) List > nofile

  C) Copy fileX > output file

  D) Delete df0:Xfile >> nil:

  E) Runback -1 >execute sys:s/startup-sequence



31.  The command "Relabel" is:

  A) Used with word processing

  B) Used to make envelope and package address labels

  C) Used when "Rename" isn't

  D) For changing the name of both a directory and its sub-directories



32.  You "CD" and the computer responds "Workbench:".  You "CD c", then "CD"
     and the computer responds "Workbench:c".  You type "CD /", then type
     "CD" and the computer responds:

  A) "Workbench:c"

  B) "DF0:"

  C) "Workbench:"

  D) "/"

  E) "Workbench:/"



33.  If you didn't get the last question, it's because:

  A) You didn't study worth beans

  B) You think it's unfair, 'cause it wasn't in the tutorial

  C) You never thought of using the wildcard directory "/" before

  D) You thought it might be a trick question...as if I'd stoop so low

  E) All of the above



34.  If not Exists Ram:xx
     Run Clock
     Else
     Run CLI
     EndIf

     means:

  A) A CLI is opened up if Ram:xx is a binary file

  B) The Clock is run unless the CLI was opened if xx in Ram existed

  C) Ram:xx is a device or a directory

  D) The Else was Executed automatically because the Clock was Run

  E) A and C

  F) B and D

  G) E and F


35.  If you have a copy of Workbench in df1, and "Install df1:", you:

  A) Wipe df1 clean

  B) Do essentially nothing

  C) Make the disk boot straight to the CLI

  D) Make the disk boot quicker, as you've re-written the Install boot sector
     to the most recent area on the disk



36.  If you see a "FROM/A,TO,OPT/K", it's a:

  A) Format

  B) Template

  C) Specification

  D) Sequence Option Code

  E) Living nightmare


37.  If one of your keys gets stuck down, the best thing to do is:

  A) Shoot it liberally with WD-40

  B) Take it immediately to the shop and let the professional fix it

  C) Pop the keycap off with a couple of butter knife tips and drip a little
     99 percent isopropyl alcohol onto the sticky part, work it 'til it
     frees up, then carefully replace the keycap

  D) Blow hot, moist breath on it through a tube for about three minutes

  E) Lubricate it with warm milk



38.  The middle button on a three-button mouse is:

  A) Hey now, wait just a minute, this has gone far enough!

  B) The equivalent of Ctrl-LeftAmiga-RightAmiga

  C) The equivalent of LeftAmiga-M and N

  D) The shift key or window controller

  E) For hard drives only



39.  The RightAmiga-X command works just about everywhere you see the cursor:

  A) Yes, and a handy little command it can be!

  B) The IS no such thing as the command "RightAmiga-X"

  C) No, it only works on the Workbench

  D) It works in the Workbench environment, but not in things like terminal
     programs, paint programs or word processors



40.  One of these is completely worthless:

  A) Run Execute s/startup-sequence

  B) Dir > prt: df1: opt a

  C) Assign "Workbench 1.3": "df1:Workbench BkUp2":

  D) Run >nil: delete fonts all quiet

  E) List > fileX Clock.info



41.  The pixel arrays of Lo-Res, Med-Res, Interlace and Hi-Res are:

  A) 200x200, 400x400, 600x600, 800x800

  B) 120x240, 240x360, 360x480, 480x600

  C) 320x200, 640x200, 320x400, 640x400

  D) 340x680, 680x1360, 1360x2720, 2720x5440



42.  The audio.device resides:

  A) Deep within the bowels of the Amiga

  B) In the devs directory, where it belongs

  C) In any directory you choose, as long as it's one of the ones recognized
     by the Amiga, like libs, c or devs.

  D) Uh, gee, uh, WHAT audio.device?



43.  Which of these puppies actually has a chance of running:

  A) Ed 2X3=6

  B) Rename df0:fonts/topaz.font df1:fonts/topaz2.font

  C) Copy nil: >nil:

  D) Execute Run Clock

  E) Ed /\/\/\/\/\

  F) Ya want the truth?  None of 'em



44.  To open a CLI window the size of the entire screen, we use for
     Interlace Mode "NewCLI con:0/0/640/400/", and for Non-Interlace Mode
     "NewCLI con:0/0/640/200/":

  A) Something STILL seems fishy, but okay, I'll bite

  B) Substitute "CLI" for "NewCLI" and I'm sold

  C) If those are the numbers you're using, forget it

  D) Ah ha, caught you this time!  There has to be a space after the ":"!



45.  You have a scriptfile you want to Execute from your startup-sequence.
     The scriptfile, "note.scp", says this:

                        Assign fonts: Fontdisk:
                        df0:Utilities/Notepad
                        Assign fonts: df0:fonts

     Unfortunately, the scriptfile runs a program, so the st-seq window
     doesn't close when it's done.  To get around this, you:

  A) Execute >nil: note.scp

  B) Execute Execute note.scp

  C) Execute >nil: note.scp bypass

  D) Run >nil: Execute note.scp

  E) Execute <nil: Run >nil: note.scp



46.  In Interlace mode on a 512k machine, the Calculator operates at a
     somewhat slower speed when you resize it to larger than half the
     screen:

  A) No, resizing the Calculator has nothing to do with math functions.
     Whud'ya think we are, anyway?  Stoopid??

  B) True, once you re-size a "processing tool", like the Calculator, beyond
     half the screen (in Interlace mode), it dips into processor power to
     sustain the graphic image, thus slowing it down

  C) No, it only gives the illusion of being slowed down because the
     numbers and buttons and everything are bigger

  D) Impossible, I tell you!


47.  You have a program called Bumpersnaggle.  You enter "Assign Run: df0:-
     Bumpersnaggle".  Then you enter "Assign Bumpersnaggle: df0:c/NewCLI".
     You enter "Bumpersnaggle:" and up pops a CLI window.  You enter "NewCLI"
     and:

  A) The Bumpersnaggle program begins to run

  B) Nothing happens, because of the re-Assign

  C) You get an error message, plain and simple

  E) A normal CLI window pops up

  F) You get a requester asking for Volume Bumpersnaggle

  G) The CLI returns the message "Cannot process information, all lines busy"



48.  It's important to back up valuable disks because:

  A) Your disk could accidentally get infected by a virus

  B) You bought a cheap, under-$50 surge protector and the disk could get
     zapped in the middle of a write

  C) You could wipe one out simply by pressing on it too hard while writing
     on the label.  Heck, you could wipe one out just putting the label ON!

  D) It could just suddenly out-of-the-blue have a read/write error, not
     validate correctly, Guru out the machine, who-knows?

  E) Dust and smoke particles are like "boulders" to the disks, and hey, that
     looks like one floating this way now!

  F) And, of course, it's JUST possible some rank beginner might wipe out a
     bunch of good stuff with a simple inadvertant flick of the wrist...

  G) ALL of the above


49.  Noah's.arc was good for you because:

  A) It kept the likes of you off the streets

  B) Your neighbors finally got some sleep

  C) You cut down on your vices because you couldn't do both at once

  D) You are literally a different person than you were that short time ago

  E) Your parents finally have reason to hope

  F) YOU finally have reason to hope!

  G) All of the above



50.  The Amiga is just one hot computer because:

  A) The payment didn't require a second mortgage

  B) It's faster than slick

  C) The mouse makes certain functions a dream

  D) The gas money and quarters you spent at the video arcade will pay
     for the computer in about four months

  E) The graphic pictures are astounding, and let's face it..

  F) Some of those pictures are pretty graphic! ;>

  G) You're allowed to recover files before a melt-down

  H) You can customize the system to no end

  I) It provides true multitasking

  J) You can do desktop publishing in 4,096 colors

  K) It has built-in digital-to-analog converters for sound sampling

  L) It has stereo outputs with dedicated processors and MIDI support

  M) It has dedicated video co-processors for animations and digitizing

  N) It supports SCSI drives

  O) It can digitize images online up to 30 frames a second

  P) It has a software selection of over 3,000 titles, NOT counting BBSs

  Q) It can combine internal and external video on-screen

  R) It uses an intuitive graphic/window interface

  S) It uses the hot 32-bit MC68000 processor

  T) It just blows the doors off anything else you've ever seen

  U) There hasn't been anything else like it, before or since

  V) It has made this one of the most exciting times of our lives

  W) It has enabled us to transcend to a different dimension..

       a dimension, as they say,

       not only of sight and sound, but of mind...

  X) And not to just transcend a dimension, but to be part of an evolution..

  Y) And, to be just beginning...


  Z) All of the above



                              *        *        *



  Fun, huh?  Whad'ya MEAN it was slanted, biased, unfair, unethical and
morally degrading?!  That's what tests are FOR...

  ...to prepare you for the real world!

                                       *

  You should Type another copy of this so you can look at both the
questions and answers at the same time so you can learn from your mixtakes.

                                       *

ANSWERS:

  Okay, so now I've got to scrape all these bruised egos off the floor.
Hey, don't let it bother you that you didn't know "CD /" meant return to the
previous directory...and ANYone could have gotten that "text curser" one
wrong.  Okay, so I'm a sneaky guy!  You KNEW that!



1. (A,C,D) Well, it's certainly not identical, and no accountant in their
right mind would use such a cheap keyboard for a calculator, so we'll just
have to assume it's for beginner spreadsheets and the like.  I've run what
seems like a zillion programs on this thing and the only ones I can recall
that use the numeric keypad exclusively are Tetrix, Flight Sim and Gunship.
If you want a point for answer A, go ahead and take it.  I mean, the truth
is the truth.

2. (D) Sorry, but they aren't five and a HALF inches, they're five and a
QUARTER!  Hey, if you can't read, don't blame me.

3. (F) The books are filled with it both ways, even in the same paragraph.

4. (A) Hey..some things are obvious,right?

5. (D) Granted, I DID have to try it just to make sure...

6. (B) Sorry again.  The ".device" and ".library" are switched around.

7. (E) I think I've made my position on the Trashcan clear by now...

8. (C) I sure hope you didn't answer "B".

9. (C) Why does this look like the first REAL question on the test?

10. (B) I know, I know..you were torn between "A" and "C".  You just
        couldn't believe Ed was capable of writing to the printer.  By the
        way, as a side benefit to my writing this question, I learned that
        Ed actually DOES write to the printer!  Gee, who woulda thought?

11. (D) Never used it, myself.  Cheap shot, huh?

12. (D) I hope this is obvious, but they're BOTH digital! :)

13. (D) Sorry, but rules are rules.

14. (E) 255 is the max number of chars on a line.  Sure, you wouldn't be able
        to SEE 90% of it, but that's different. :)

15. (D) You have to issue the full pathname "df0:System/MyIcon"

16. (E) Don't mind me while I take one last swipe at it.

17. (D) Just checks sub-sub-sub dirs.

18. (A,E) certainly looks like it oughta do SOMETHING, don't it?

19. (D,F) None of this stuff is for real, I made it all up.  If you spill a
        drink on the Amiga, the cable ends are the LAST things you'll have
        to worry about.  It all sounded good, though.

20. (C) Hey, so I gave you ONE toughie..what's the beef?

21. (E) Hex-edit the R-R-ROM??  <chuckle>

22. (C) Right Mouse Button, silly.

23. (C) And you say I never give you an easy one..hah!

24. (F) It's an "icon environment", a "working platform", a "graphical inter-
        face", hey, who knows about this stuff.

25. (D) Copy wipes it out but Rename gives you an error message.

26. (D) Sure sounded good, didn't it?

27. (E) Sorry to jest at such a serious time.

28. (A-E) I kid you not, one of the DOS books mentioned the bootstraps.

29. (B) That's "CON", for "CONsole", not "COM" for "COMputer", Noodle-brain.

30. (B) Gee, come to think of it, I never DID try "D"...

31. (C) Go to the back of the class if you said "B".

32. (C) Hey, I'm TIRED of hearing about what a dirty trick this was!

33. (E) Look on the bright side..at least you got THIS one right!

34. (B) Okay, so my off a little wording was.

35. (B) "D" sounds good, but it would have to be written FIRST.

36. (B) No, I don't know how to read it either.

37. (C) You didn't know YOUR intuition was going to be tested as well!

38. (D) Hey, if you're a "computer operator", you find this stuff out.

39. (A) It's "built-in", works almost everywhere except the CLI, where you
        use Ctrl-X instead.

40. (C) The end quotes have to be outside the colons.

41. (C) Now really, was this asking too much?

42. (A) It's in ROM or something.  I mean, I know it's there somewhere.

43. (F) Bet you put "A".  Ha-ha, can't use an equal sign.

44. (A) What, don't you trust me??

45. (D) If you're running 1.2, I don't think this will work.  Give yourself
        a point for trying.

46. (D) The Calculator can't be re-sized at ALL, Byte-brain!

47. (E) The computer now recognizes two commands for NewCLI

48. (G) Did I say "possible"?  Excuse me, I meant "probable".

49. (G) Hey, if it isn't obvious to you, it is to everyone else.

50. (Z) Go ahead, call me sentimental.  Better that than semimental. :/


                              *        *        *

Scoring:

 0 - 10  Took this test by accident.

10 - 20  Read the tutorial, THEN took this test by accident.

20 - 29  See you back in Part3!

30 - 34  Hey, I warned you there was going to be a test!

35 - 38  An eight-year old I know scored a 36 just last week...

39 - 41  You mean you actually OPENED the DOS books??  I'm impressed!

42 - 43  Go ahead, hold your head high

44 - 45  Whew!  Top-shelf stuff, all the way!

46 - 47  Looks like we're calling you Computer Operator!

48 - 50  Excuse me, that was MISTER Computer Operator!!

                                       *

  Well, the first thing you've got to do it get rid of all the terrible
ideas I warped your mind with during the test.  I mean, "Join opt r -7000
Booklist"??  Hello?  I still like the "analog clock" one.  If you didn't get
it right you have to write "My computer is completely digital" on the black-
board one thousand times.

  By the way, that business with the sticky keys is for real, did my "n"
just the other day.  Don't use too much, just a drop or two.  Has to be the
99 percent stuff, available at the pharmacy.  Pry the keycap straight off
and put it straight back on.  I waive all legal and moral responsibility.

  And lastly, while keeping in mind that it's crazy, feel free to try
variations of any of the goofy stuff in the test.  You can't hurt anything
and after all...

  ..the search for UnLoadWb has got to start somewhere!


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