Q&A
| Q1: | In MS-DOS, I seem to recall that there is a control key command to retype the previous line that you had typed in. Do you happen to know that command? |
| A1: | After opening an MS-DOS Command Prompt window, enter the command doskey. This causes all subsequent commands you type in to be saved, and you can navigate backwards and forwards through these saved commands by using the up arrow and down arrow keys on your keyboard. This can be a timesaver when you're trying to fix a Java program that won't compile successfully. Windows XP supports this functionality automatically. |
| Q2: | I have several word processing programs on my system. Which should I use to write Java programs? |
| A2: | Any of them will suffice, as long as the program can save files as text ... |
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