Subject: Signature at bottom...

From: Chafallo <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 12:21:21 -0500

I have tried...God have I tried!! to put a signature at the bottom of 
all my messages; you know, those cute little drawings and such that appear 
automatically at the bottom of messages.  Well... I've typed S (for set 
up) the C (for configuration), got to "signature at bottom" I have read and 
*follow* the instructions obtained by pressing help(?)...Used Pico, wrote a 
coouple of lines and an inspiring quote from "Don Quijote" and saved to the 
file "signature", checked (again) the signature at bottom feature and... 
nothing, nothing, nothing!...
Could anubody please help me before I destroy my computer and modem?
Thank you very much! 

Simply signed

Chafallo

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From: [email-masked] (Jonathan and DearOldDad)
Date: 9 Jul 1995 19:46:56 GMT

Chafallo ([email-masked]) wrote:
:   I have tried...God have I tried!! to put a signature at the bottom of 
: all my messages; you know, those cute little drawings and such that appear 
: automatically at the bottom of messages.  Well... I've typed S (for set 
: up) the C (for configuration), got to "signature at bottom" I have read and 
: *follow* the instructions obtained by pressing help(?)...Used Pico, wrote a 
: coouple of lines and an inspiring quote from "Don Quijote" and saved to the 
: file "signature", checked (again) the signature at bottom feature and... 
: nothing, nothing, nothing!...
: Could anubody please help me before I destroy my computer and modem?
: Thank you very much! 
: Simply signed
: Chafallo

Yup, simple ... the filename should be .signature (not signature); The . 
is important.  G'Day.
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From: "Kathleen D. Neustadt" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 17:43:15 -0400 (EDT)

If anyone has an idea, I would love it.  I have read and read an just 
seem to get deeper.

I dial in from a DOS machine to a unix server (home to school).  I then 
use pine (version 3.89) to read and write.  

I want to be able to dial in, collect my mail, get off and read/reply 
without tying up my phone line or the school's.  

I have read about PPP and SLP but don't know how to tell if we even have 
that.  I have printed the Unix manual pages for mail, mailx, write, 
sendmail, environ and still can't find it.

I have also heard the term SOUP.  I do this on other BBS's using .QWK 
packs.  It has allowed me to writed scripts to dial in at 2am and pick 
up/deliver mail all over.

Thanks

K. Neustadt
[email-masked]

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 1995 18:45:14 -0400

On Sun, 9 Jul 1995, Chafallo wrote:

|                                                          Used Pico, wrote a 
| coouple of lines and an inspiring quote from "Don Quijote" and saved to the 
| file "signature", checked (again) the signature at bottom feature and... 
| nothing, nothing, nothing!...

    If you are on a Un*x system, your signature file should be named 
precisely ".signature", not "signature".  Note the leading period.  This 
is the default in the Un*x world.  Also, it usually resides in your home 
directory.  However, with Pine, you may go into the configuration and 
give your signature file another name.  Check to make sure everything is 
in synch.

Paul
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From: Phil Tompkins <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 21:09:48 -0400

> without tying up my phone line or the school's.  

Here's what I've done to automate downloading mail to my PC for
offline reading.  It's a bit of a Rube Goldberg patchwork, but,
hey, it works.
 
I dial into a Unix machine (local Internet access provider) from
my IBM-like PC.  My communications program (Hayes Smartcom for 
Windows) has a script language, also it had a capture to disk 
function.  On the Unix machine I use Pine 9.1, which has a 
select command plus an aggregate command function (apply the same 
Pine command to a set of selected messages).  
 
Since I subscribe to several listservs, I have set up a script to
select and flag mail from each one and export them from my Pine
Inbox to separate files in my Unix directory.  I then go to the
Unix shell and run a script to open my PC disk capture files and
execute the Unix cat file command; as the exported mail files fly 
by on the screen I capture them to my hard disk.
 
To go in reverse, I compose replys offline using the DOS edit.
When I want to send them, I use the autotype function of Pine, which
copies in my reply files as if I am typing them into Pine (but much
faster, of course).
 
All this may or may not apply to your situation, and you may or may
not want to duplicate it.  If you do and want more info, I would
be glad to assist.
 
Regards,
Phil