Subject: disc exceeded

From: sem <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 21:21:31 -0800 (PST)

To whom it may concern,
 
I was viewing the attachment of a file sent by my friend. I had to saved
the file into my folder in order to view that file. However, the file that
I saved had exceeded the quota. What should I do to clean the disc space.
 
Ling

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 12:28:05 +0100 (CET)

>I saved had exceeded the quota. What should I do to clean the disc space.

Depends on the OS your pine is running on. To state the obvious, the easiest
thing to do is to rtfm:

man rm
man quota
man mv

If you're a very brave man, try the following:

cd (or cd Mail or where ever you suspect the large files to hide)
ls -alFS | less
rm <name of big file>

That should get you started right now. If you keep getting large files on a
regular basis, try to tell the senders that email is not made for that and
that they had better use ftp. Also, try to get more disk space if necessary
- talk to your sysadmin for that. He's also the person you ought to turn to
with problems like the one you're just having.

Cheers,
Robin

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From: Eric Tse <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:50:38 GMT

> I saved had exceeded the quota. What should I do to clean the disc space.

  Perhaps you need to clean up your account a little bit.
  If you're on a UNIX system, you can use "rm file" to delete a file named
"file". You can use "zip" or "gzip" to compress files. Type "man zip" and
"man gzip" for command line parameters and more information.

  Hope this helps.

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