Subject: Help! Exporting files

From: [email-masked] (National Commission on Women's Affairs)
Date: 14 Mar 1996 18:46:03 GMT

Help!

I am a relatively new user of the internet and am having problems 
exporting plain text files from Pine. I am working in a netserv 
environment, from a LAN computer at my office, and according to the 
program which I use to dial the fileserver the home directory is c:\aw. 
But when I tell the machine to export the plain text file and I think it 
should go to that directory it doesn't, and in fact searches everywhere I 
can think of fail to locate the file.

Can anyone suggest where the file is going, or how I could ensure I know 
where it is going?

Help would be greatly appreciated!

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From: Jim Esten <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 16:46:53 -0600 (CST)

When you export a file, it becomes a plain text file in the home 
directory wherever the pine program is, not your local hard drive.  You 
must then use a modem transfer program to move it from the server to your 
local machine.

An example.  I export a messsage, naming it test.txt

I leave pine and from my unix shell prompt type:  sz test.txt

This calls up the zmodem program on both commputers to transfer the file 
to my local hard drive.  Most everyone uses zmodem these days, although 
you may find that you need to use xmodem, kermit, or something else 
depending on what your providers offers.

Jim

Jim Esten
(temporarily between .sigs)