Subject: question re: export command:

From: "STEVEN M. NICOLA" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 10:24:09 -0500 (EST)

I have an e-mail message that I have received that I would like to ammend
and print. I think I understand that the best place to do work of this
sort is after I have exported the letter as a plain text file. I did this
and it went to a "home directory" that I called "poetry". I can't find the
home directory(what is it anyway?) and I can't find my message. Can you
help?

						Steven Nicola

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From: Mike Brudenell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:04:29 +0000 (GMT)

Ummm... you didn't mention whether you were using Pine on a UNIX system,
or PC-Pine (on a PC).

>From the header lines of your message it appears to be UNIX Pine (under
Linux), in which case your "home directory" is the directory you are
placed in upon logging in (and you can usually return there later by just
giving the command "cd").

Try having a look there for your "poetry" file.

Cheers,

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From: "Robin S. Socha" <[email-masked]>
Date: 04 Mar 1998 17:54:23 +0100

>> "SMN" == STEVEN M NICOLA <[email-masked]> writes:

SMN> I have an e-mail message that I have received that I would like
SMN> to ammend and print. I think I understand that the best place to
SMN> do work of this sort is after I have exported the letter as a
SMN> plain text file. I did this and it went to a "home directory"
SMN> that I called "poetry". I can't find the home directory(what is
SMN> it anyway?) and I can't find my message. Can you help?

Do this at the Command Line Interface:

   cd ~
   pico poetry

Then check which printer commands you have by saying:

   apropos print

   lpr poetry 

should work.

Get a U*ix introduction from your help desk,
Robin

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Robin S. Socha
Political Science Dept., Bonn University 
Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly.
It just happens to be selective about who it makes friends with.