Subject: Email with attachments -- HELP!

From: Carol L Bott <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 22:27:26 -0400 (EDT)

I'm new, and I just got email with an attachment.  I can't figure out how
to view the attachment.  When I try to view it, it says:  Don't know how
to display attachment format Application/OCTET-STREAM]

If I save the attachment, how do I then view it?  Where is it saved?  
Thanks for the assistance.

cb

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From: Ed Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 17:14:46 +0800 (GMT)

> Thanks for the assistance.

	First, pine will save it your your "home directory".  What that is
will vary depending the platform you are using.  You are running on an
RS6000 machine.  So, that would indicate you are accessing pine via
a shell account.  With "luck" you are not accessing pine through a menu
driven shell account.

	Anyway, the attachment should be saved in your home directory.
Now, the trick is "what is" the attachment.  It shows up as "octet-stream"
which is a "catch-all" type.  It would have been nice if the sender could
have told you what the attachment is or sent it in such a way that the
MIME headers told you.  

	If the attachment is an MS-Word or whatever....then you'll need
to xfer it your PC to view it.

	Other wise....you can try, your your shell account, typing 
something like "more filename"

	Hope this helps....
	
	Ed

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 19:20:03 -0400

On 26 Oct 1996, Ed Greshko wrote:

> > [...]
> 	First, pine will save it your your "home directory".   [...]

    Ummm, just a refinement, Ed.  I believe that should be "current
directory."  Probably for the great many Un*x Pine users, their home
directory _is_ their current directory, but it doesn't have to be. 
For example, I have a directory $HOME/tmp, and I always make that my
current directory (usually via my login) before I start Pine.  All
exports, attachment saves, and what-not always go into that directory,
not my home directory.  I do this deliberately to avoid the risk of
cluttering up my home directory.

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From: Edward M Greshko <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 08:07:03 +0800 (GMT)

> cluttering up my home directory.

	Ahhh...well a further refinement...it will be "current directory" 
iff you have " use-current-dir " set in your configuration.  Otherwise
it will be your "home directory".  I suspect you have " use-current-dir"
check but just forgot about it.  :-) :-)

	Ed

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From: Paul O Bartlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 20:26:25 -0400 (EDT)

On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Edward M Greshko wrote:

> it will be your "home directory".  [...]

    I stand refined on my refinement to you :-) .  It has been so long
since I did anything with that part of my configuration that I had
forgotten about it.  However, even the help screen for that option
could use a little refinement.

    For inclusion and attachment of files (I have not tried the latter
lately) one may merely specify the filename and get the file from the
current directory (or home, as the case may be).  But what the help
screen does not tell you is that you can give an explicit path and
fetch a file from anyplace on the system that you have read permission
for, not just the current (or home) directory.  (I am speaking of Un*x
Pine here.)  I have used that undocumented feature many, many times.