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The answers to the following exercise can be found on the The Berkeley Netscape BasicsTutorial

1. What does the tutorial mean when it says that Netscape is a "client?" check the answer at Berkeley tutorial under the What is Netscape? link.

   The tutorial means that Netscape is a program which permits us to read Web pages that are on the Internet. The computers that hold the Web pages are called "servers." They serve up the files for the Web pages that we ask for. We are the "clients." Another name for Netscape is browser. Internet Explorer, packaged with most microsoft-equipped computers, is the Microsoft browser or client.

2. Use the Berkeley library's page to Search the Internet, which you will find under the Navigate the Web link under E, under "If you are exploring Web resources." Use Inference Find and do the search on: "Habermas" AND "postmodern." Under which categories will you find Dear Habermas?

   The search should produce a link to Dear Habermas under Misc. Educational Institution Sites. Try both the Academics link which will lead you to the CSUDH homepage, with Dear Habermas under Sociology, and the Postmodern Thought link of Martin Ryder at the University of Colorado in Denver. Under that link, tyr Corollary Sites, and you will find Dear Habermas.

   In the section "To Save a Document to Disk" why does the Berkeley tutorial say that if you save the file to a hard drive it will be deleted?

   Because these are tutorials for the use of school computers, not your personal computer. Just as in the CSUDH labs, files saved to the hard drive of campus computers not under the direct control of a designated staff or faculty member are deleted. This is not so if you are using your own computer.

3. What does the Berkeley library suggest you do if a document is taking forever to download? Hint: Go to Netscape Essentials to which you will find a link at the very end of the document on Netscape Basics.

   The tutorial suggests that you stop the transfer by clicking the Stop button on the tool bar, and then click the Reload button. Sometimes that works. Don't do this with the CSUDH lab machines until you're reasonably sure the machine is stuck. They are very slow!

4. What can you do if you don't want to save a whole file to a disk? Maybe you didn't even bring a disk. What if you just want to copy a paragraph from a Web site onto a document you can print out on the computer you are using?

   Link to How to How to Grab a Portion from a Web Page. Find the link under NEW or under Manuals for Just About Everything or in the Site Index.

Jeanne jcurran@csudh.edu