UNDER CONSTRUCTION

pine

Pine is the Program for Internet News and E-mail. It is no longer being developed but is still popular among Universities.

• To access pine type "pine" at your shell:

  olympus:/export/home/b/bhills> pine

• The first time you ever run pine, you will see a message letting you know that it's creating a directory to save your mail in:

  Creating subdirectory "/export/home/b/bhills/mail" where Pine
  will store its mail folders.

• You will then see the one-time greeting message. Type "E" to exit the greeting.
• You'll be greeted by the pine interface, that looks like this:

  ?	HELP 		- Get help using Pine
  C	COMPOSE MESSAGE - Compose and send a message
  I 	MESSAGE INDEX 	- View messages in current folder
  L 	FOLDER LIST 	- Select a folder to view
  A 	ADDRESS BOOK 	- Update address book
  S 	SETUP 		- Configure Pine Options
  Q 	QUIT 		- Leave the Pine program
  

  The first column is the key you will press to do/access the description in the second and third columns.
  You may also use your arrow-keys and the [enter] key to navigate this menu. Your selection will highlight as you move with the arrow keys.
• At the bottom of the screen is even more commands, each with their respective short-cut key also:

                                                             [Folder "INBOX" opened with 0 messages]
  ? Help                                              P PrevCmd                                            R RelNotes
  O OTHER CMDS              > [ListFldrs]             N NextCmd                                            K KBLock
  

  As you move around with your arrow-keys on the first list (in the middle of the screen) you will see the bottom of your screen, in the second column, where my above example has > [ListFldrs] change. This is changing based on what you highlight. You may use [enter] or ">" to access what you have highlighted.

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