Subject: Re: your mail

From: "SHAUN D. DELLER" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:41:45 +1000 (EST)

I'm having a major drama trying to send an attachment.  How do I access 
the floppy drive to get a file to attach?  I'm using a Macintosh LC.

Shaun Deller

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 09:07:30 +0100 (BST)

[If it really *is* a major drama for you then you may very well be better
off asking your local Help Desk for support!]

I am going to assume you are using the UNIX version of Pine (ie, are
connecting to a UNIX computer at your site and then giving it the command
"pine") ... you didn't say explicitly (it helps if you do!), but because I
happen to know that Pine isn't available for a Macintosh!

UNIX Pine can only attach files that the computer it is running on can
"see" on one of its disk drives: in this case the UNIX filestore.  You
cannot attach a file that is sitting on another machine's disk drive
(unless that disk drive has been specially made available to ("mounted
on") the UNIX computer and is hence available to it).

Consequently you first need to transfer the file from the Macintosh to
your UNIX system.  Once on there you can then attach it to your Pine
message.

Quite how you do the transfer depends very much on the software you have
got set up on the Macintosh and the services available to it from your
UNIX mainframe.  Possibilities include:

1.  Using an "ftp" program on the Mac to transfer the file.
2.  Using a "Kermit" or "Xmodem" program on the Mac to transfer the file.
3.  Copying the file through a GatorBox link to the UNIX filestore (this
    usually results in TWO files on the UNIX system, and so is not ideal
    for use as an attachment).

You will need to ask your local Help Desk for advice.

Cheers,

Mike Brudenell                                         <[email-masked]>
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