Setting up your environment

Login to the Brunel Windows network. This involves entering your login id. (typically of the form ma15xxx or cs15xxx ... depending on what course you were initially entered on) in the login box and then involves entering your password in the password box and then press return.
Get the command prompt window by activating Start (bottom left hand corner of the screen) and typing
```
cmd.exe
```
in the box that is shown.
In the command window created the following lines have to be entered. You can type them exactly as shown or you can load this file
```
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~icstmkw/ma1710/lab_setup.html
```
into a web browser (e.g. internet explorer), highlight the lines using the mouse by moving the mouse cursor to the first character of the first line, press the mouse and keep it pressed as you move to the last character of the last of the lines. With the lines highlighted then press the Ctrl key and the letter C at the same time. This saves the highlighted lines to a buffer. You then make the command prompt window the active window again and click the mouse on the top left hand corner to get a menu. From the menu select "Edit" and from the sub-menu select "Paste". This should execute the batch of lines that you highlighted.
The lines to highlight and paste or to type are given below.
Assuming that you are at Brunel then you can use the following 3 lines.
```
net use r: /d
net use r: \\uxisapp1.brunel.ac.uk\apps
r:\c++\ma1710\u\mybin15\mkw_mat15.bat
```
If this ran successfully then the task is complete.
If for any reason the previous actions failed, e.g. the r: drive connection failed then you can still try the following in the case that you are viewing this with internet explorer Click here. If it lets you run the file then choose that option. If it just lets you view the contents then highlight everything and then press the Crtl and C keys together to save this in a buffer. Next start notepad and once started press the Crtl and V keys together to paste what was previously highlighted into the editor window. (You can start notepad by typing notepad at the command window prompt.) Then in notepad click on File (top left hand corner) and select SaveAs and for the file name enter
```
 
h:\mkw_mat15.bat
```
when you are at Brunel. Finally, type the following in the command prompt window
```
 
h:\mkw_mat15.bat
```