PARKIN01 EXAMS

#Human Help

Help files in the directory Parkin01 on your computer

1. How to make a question file

2. Running your question file in PARKIN01

3. Word Processing

4. Account Balance

5. Example of sending the job to NERMVS

6. Merging the grades

7. Parkin01 directions Cathy’s set of directions on the web.

8. Texam.html – exams in tex

Common Problems

The question file

The question file must contain no more than 80 characters on a line. Extra characters are not read and seem to do some harm in addition to that. Usually these cause an incorrect number of answers to one of the questions. Usually this is caught on the PC in the process of making the proof and it will issue a warning. This causes the code to merely produce a numbered listing of the input file. This is in the qname.out file. It is possible for this to get clear through to NEREXAM before being detected, but I do not believe that it has ever happened.

If the question file is made with the dos editor, edit, the bottom line shows the column that you are on. In Notepad, the first time set the size of the window to 80 and simply enter carriage returns to keep the lines, looking correct. If word is used to make the question file, set the font to Courier 13, and save the file as text with line breaks.

Linefeed/Carraige return

If you are running Parkin01 from Linux in a dos emulator, you must remember that NEREXAM which produces the exams on the IBM mainframe using MVS requires the dos convention of <cr><lf> at the end of each line. The dos codes Unix2Dos or Dos2Unix, or even the c files in Uddu.zip, which are in parkin01\linux may be necessary to get files that will run on the NERDC.

File list

Directory of D:\Parkin01

09/13/1999 06:39p 1,451 brcbexam.html

10/01/2002 09:05a 221,967 btex.zip The path structure, executable and bat files for making tex exams.

10/01/2002 08:34a 7,017 EMTEX.HTM Brief description of the emtex setup.

12/12/1999 03:47p 1,756 FPTEX.HTM Directions for getting a “free” version of tex.

02/09/2001 09:30p 5,956 ftp.html Directions for using ftp

05/03/2002 03:11p 1,301,989 GATORUP.ZIP Power point presentation by Steve Pritz on how to upload grades at semester’s end.

02/09/2001 11:25p 22,174 gmerge.html Direction for using the gra files to produce final grades.

08/09/2002 05:42a 860,049 minemtex.zip The minimum emtex needed to view the exams in a dos like environment – works with Windows 98 and before.

02/13/2001 10:19p 3,929 nerinfo.htm How to find an account balance.

10/01/2002 09:31a 169,276 Parkbatf.zip Password protected fortran and bat files for making the PC and Nerdc versions of RCBEXAM.

08/09/2002 05:51a 292,352 Parkin01.exe Self extracting set of Parkin01 files.

10/01/2002 09:50a 9,027 Parkin01.htm Directions for extracting Parkin01 files.

09/13/1999 06:39p 11,435 Parkin1.html Directions for producing exams.

08/09/2002 05:50a 253,431 Parkin01.zip Zipped set of Parkin01 files.

08/07/2002 08:49p 11,438 QUE.HTM Directions for making a que file.

09/13/1999 03:39p 8,259 sample.que sample que file.

10/01/2002 09:27a 6,670 texam.html Intruduction to TeX exams.

10/01/2002 09:45a 37,234 TEXBATF.ZIP Password protected source code for texam

08/08/2002 01:47p 273,568 UNIX.zip Password protected source code for a unix version of texam

09/13/1999 06:39p 3,785 Word_Proc.html Description of the word processing features of rcbexam.

Human Help

Mary L. Ploch, (392-2231, ploch@geology.ufl.edu) makes exams for Dept. of Geological Sciences. She knows more about the practical side of rcbexam than anyone else.

Cathy Knudsen, (392-8742, cathy@phys.ufl.edu) makes exams for the physics department. She is the expert on exams in TeX. Parkin01 directions are on her web site.

Bob Coldwell (home 373-7493, office 392-0793 Room 2275 NPB ufbobc@.ufl.edu) Mike Parkinson wrote the original version of the code. He probably would not recognize Bob’s version. Bob will try to help and as a result may decide to “improve” the code. He is not the expert at using rcbexam.