Subject: Requesting assistance in using Pine

From: Frankie <"[email-masked]"@morgan.ucs.mun.ca>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:00:28 -0800

Requesting assistance in using Pine

I am wondering how to compose a message using PECO, then getting into the 
message section of an e-mail using tel-net pine.

Thank you

Frankie
[email-masked]

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From: Drachen <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 11:25:48 -0800 (PST)

try typing ctrl and R together, then type the name of the file

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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 13:35:03 -0600 (CST)

>From: Frankie <[email-masked]>
>Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 03:00:28 -0800

>I am wondering how to compose a message using PECO,

I take it you mean pico, not PECO. man pico for a list of command-line
switches.

To use the editor, pico [file], and start composing. To exit, ^x. There are
almost no features, so you'll be an expert after one or two compositions.

>then getting into the message section of an e-mail using tel-net pine.

You use telnet to initiate a session on a remote computer on which you have an
account that's priviledged to run pine; you can't telnet directly into a pine
session.

Start the pine composer, either "c" from the main menu, or pine [address] to
bypass the main menu and go directly into the composer.

After filling in the rest of the headers, put the cursor in the body of the
message, hit ^r [file], and the text you composed outside of your pine session
is now in the body of the message. You may further edit it before sending.