Subject: DOS attachments to Unix Pine email messages

From: [email-masked] (Kathleen House)
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 95 19:24:26 PDT

Can DOS ASCII documents be attached directly to email messages sent via 
Pine from Unix?  Or must all attachments be on Unix (via ftp, Kermit, etc) 
before they can be sent?
Any help is greatly appreciated.

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 09:18:20 +0100 (BST)

Pause and think carefully for a moment ...

[I'm assuming you're using the UNIX version of Pine by running a terminal 
emulator on your micro to connect to and login to a UNIX computer..]

You are logged in to UNIX, using UNIX commands, using files stored on the 
UNIX computer's disk.  Forgetting about Pine for a moment, can you see 
any of the files on your micro's own hard disk directly from UNIX?  Or do 
you have to transfer (Kermit/whatever) them to UNIX first?

If you can't "see" your micro's own files from UNIX (and, unless you're 
running some really funny setup you won't be able to) then Pine (which is 
just another UNIX program) won't be able to see them either.

So in order to attach a file to a message sent using *UNIX* Pine does 
indeed require the file to be accessible (usually stored on) the UNIX 
computer.

If you use the PC a lot you may like to think about getting hold over the 
PC/Windows version of Pine to use instead?  (Saves logging in to UNIX 
and *can* then send PC files (as it's running on the PC).  Can also send 
UNIX files if (and only if) the UNIX filestore is mounted (perhaps over 
PC-NFS or equivalent) on the PC.)

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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