How to Produce Test Runs of your C Program

1. From the "Main" folder, double click MS-DOS Prompt to get a command-line (DOS) prompt. You should see something like this:

        +------------------------------------------------------------
   	       _ Type EXIT and press ENTER to quit this MS-DOS prompt 
   		 and return to Windows.
   	       _ Press ALT+TAB to switch to Windows or another
   	         application.	Press ALT+ENTER to switch this MS-DOS
   	         Prompt between a window and full screen.
        +------------------------------------------------------------
        
        Microsoft(R) MS-DOS(R) Version 6.22
   	          (C)Copyright Microsoft Corp 1981-1994.
        H:\>
   

   Note if you see "X:\>", you should type "H:" to switch to your home drive ("H").
2. If your assignment files are in a subdirectory, Use the Change Directory ("cd") command to go to that subdirectory. For example, if the directory is named ASST1, you would type:

        H:\>cd asst1
   

3. Use the "dir" command to check that the directory contains the files that you expect.

        H:\ASST1>dir
         Volume in drive H is USER2
         Volume Serial Number is 01B0-847C
         Directory of H:\ASST1
        
        APPT	 C	     4,825 02-05-97   1:42p
        TEST1	 IN		18 02-05-97   4:08p
        APPT	 H	     3,044 02-05-97   1:42p
        APPTCAL  	 C	    10,525 02-05-97   1:42p
        APPTCAL  	 H	     4,999 02-05-97   1:42p
        BOOL	 H		77 02-05-97   1:42p
        QUEUE	 C	     2,668 02-05-97   1:42p
        QUEUE	 H	     2,609 02-05-97   1:42p
        T	 	 C	     8,892 02-05-97   1:42p
        TIME	 C	     3,529 02-05-97   1:42p
        TIME	 H	     2,252 02-05-97   1:42p
           13 file(s)	  43,438 bytes
   	1,638,400 bytes free
   

4. Compile and link your .c files, using the "bcc" command:

        H:\ASST1>bcc appt.c apptcal.c queue.c t.c time.c
        Borland C++ 4.52 Copyright (c) 1987, 1994 Borland International
        appt.c:
        [Lots of warnings may appear.]
   

5. If your program compiled successfully, then an executable version of it will now exist. It will be named after the first file in your bcc command (in this case "appt"), and will have a ".exe" (for "executable") extension. So in our example, we have an executable program called "appt.exe". To run it normally, you can simply type it's name.

   To run your program with input from a file (e.g., "test1.in") and output to a file (e.g., "test1.out") use the "less than" and "greater than" symbols as follows:

        h:\appt < test1.in > test1.out
   

   You can do this any number of times with different input and output files.
6. Then print your program files, input files, and output files. To print a file, open and print it from your favourite editor.