Workshop

The quiz questions are designed to strengthen the knowledge you gain each hour. The exercises help you build on that knowledge by providing you with the opportunity to apply it to real problems.

Quiz

1: Why are both the time and process ID included in filenames generated by post.pl?

Exercises

1: Create an application that will allow you to delete topics from the message group.
2: Insert code in the message group application that will store the date/time for each response in a topic, and that will display those response times when topics are printed.

Quiz Answers

A1: Both the process ID and time are included in the filenames of the topic files in order to make sure that no file names are accidentally duplicated.

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