Printing and Saving E-mail

Printing and Saving E-mail Messages

Using PINE (via telnet connection to shiva/hejira)

Printing. With the message open, press Y (for prYnt) and then confirm by typing Y (for yes). The Y command does not show immediately on the command bar at the bottom of your screen. To make it visible, press O (for Other commands first). See also p.111 in the ACS Guide.
Saving. There is the strong possibility for confusion when working on Pine. "Saving" in Pine means to put a message into a mail folder -- moving it from your Inbox. After you have done this, you can no longer automatically download the message using a POP mailer like Eudora. If you want to save a message in the more sense of being able to copy it to a diskette and later use the contents of the message for input into e.g. a word processing program (WP), you need to "export" the mail message to a file residing in your directory on shiva/hejira. The corresponding command is E; then you need to provide a file name. Again, see p.111 in the ACS Guide. Then, you download the file to your PC and copy it to a diskette. For instructions on downloading (via FTP) see p.92-96 in the ACS Guide.

Using Eudora (directly on your PC)

Printing. With the message open, select "Print" from the "File" menu -- like with any other Windows application.
Saving. With the message open, select "Save as ..." from the "File" menu. Select a drive and specify a file name. Make sure that you select a non-network drive (like c: or a:).

Details of the installation vary between the labs. E.g., in HN1001 you cannot (easily) write to the c: drive under Win95. Be prepared for these variations. Also, when using a Windows-based telnet program (as I often do in class demonstration) the shiva/hejira screen may look different from using the DOS-based telnet program that is used when you use the basic blue (Novell) menu.

The labs in the three major locations (as far as our class is concerned), HW606/7, HN1001, and the library, have different lab managers with different preferences and efforts to make things uniform (and thus easy for students) do not always succeed. Given the way the Social Science Lab came about, I have a good deal of say on how things are set up in this lab, the people running HN1001 usually, but not always listen to me, and the library runs its show completely independently. So, you need to live with this variety in order to have full access to all relevant software in the SS lab.