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a little Background

Electronic mail (e-mail) allows you to send and receive messages quickly and easily to anyone in the world that has an e-mail account. The use of e-mail is changing the way we communicate with others.

Pine (Program for Internet News and Email) is an electronic mail system created and maintained by the Computing & Communications group at the University of Washington. Pine is a text-based, menu-driven program. It was designed to be an easy-to-use program for sending, reading, and saving Internet e-mail and news-group messages. It is installed and used on the UNIX system at the University of South Dakota.

Before you can run Pine you must have a UNIX (often referred to locally as a Sun) account. Once your account is set up, you should have a personal e-mail address, username, and password. If you need to set up an account, please stop by the Compute r Consulting Desk in the basement of Slagle Hall on campus.

to START Pine

To use Pine you need to establish a TELNET session to sunburst (one of the sun systems at the University of South Dakota: also Sundance). You must enter the username and password that was assigned to you. From the sunburst% prompt, simply typing pine will start the Pine e-mail program. Once Pine is up and running, you should see the options available on the screen and additional help messages/menu at the bottom of the terminal window. There is on-line menu/Help (bottom 2 lines of all Pine windows) to provide available options.

The tutorial covers a few of the basics. Go ahead and click on the right arrow at the top or bottom of the document to proceed.

Pine is copyrighted by the University of Washington.
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comments to: Brad James
Updated 5/17/96

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