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- Current as of: July 1993
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- Display Queue of GE Mail Letters
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-
- Display information about each unread letter in your GE Mail mailbox!
- Information including the address of the sender, the date the letter was sent
- and the "subject" of the letter will be displayed on your screen.
-
-
- ============
- Read GE Mail
- ============
-
- Read all the new letters waiting in your GE Mail mailbox! Be sure you have your
- printer on or a disk capture file open so you can review your mail offline. You
- don't have to worry about missing important mail, either. GEnie saves your mail
- for up to 30 days after it was sent, so if you can't logon for a few days, your
- mail will still be waiting. Letters you have already read will also remain in
- your mailbox for up to 5 days after you read them!
-
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- Read Letters From Specific User
- ===============================
-
- GE Mail allows you to read your electronic mail from a specific user. By just
- entering their GE Mail address, letters from that user will be displayed to
- you.
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- Read Letters From Specific Date
- ===============================
-
- GE Mail will also allow you to list your mail by entering a specific date. All
- you need to do is enter the date in YYMMDD format and the letters sent on that
- date will be there for you to read.
-
- =============================
- Compose & Send GE Mail Online
- =============================
-
- Send letters to other GEnie users! Select this option and be prompted for the
- "TO:" address (make sure the recipient's GE Mail address before you start), a
- "Carbon Copy:" (send a carbon copy to yourself as a "file copy" if you wish)
- and "Subject:". The system will then prompt for the first line of text with
- "1>".
-
- Just begin typing your letter at the "1>" prompt. Make sure to press <RETURN>
- at the end of every line and wait for the next line-number prompt before
- continuing. And don't worry if you notice a mistake after you move on to the
- next line ... there are editing commands available, too.
-
- You can use the following editing commands at line-number prompts in GE Mail
- enter mode (note - the command MUST be the first entry on a line):
-
- *ACC,addr - Adds addresses "addr" to the
- Carbon Copy: list.
- *ATO,addr - Adds addresses "addr" to the
- TO: list.
- *CC,addr - Replaces addresses in the Carbon
- Copy: list with "addr".
- *COPY,nnnnnnn - Copies an existing letter into
- the current letter.
- *DELETE,n - Deletes line n from the current
- letter.
- *HELP - Prints commands available in
- ENTER mode.
- *INSERT,n - Inserts new line of text after
- line "n". Insert mode continues
- until <RETURN> is pressed on a
- blank line.
- *LIST - Lists the current entered letter.
- *LOCATE - Editing command to locate text
- in the current letter.
- *MODIFY - Changes text in the current
- message. Can change text on a
- specific line, perform global
- changes, etc. The format for
- the *MODIFY command is:
-
- *M,#/s1/s2/*
-
- - where -
-
- # - (optional) specifies the line
- number to be changed.
- s1 - is the "string" of text to be
- changed.
- s2 - is the new "string" of text.
- * - (optional) indicates to change
- s1 to s2 globally.
-
- *NEXT - Sends the letter to addressees
- and prompts with another TO:
- prompt.
- *n,text - Replaces line n in the current
- letter with text.
- *PASS - Provides extra security protection
- to the current letter.
- *RESEQUENCE - Resequences the line numbers in
- the current text.
- *SEND - Sends the current letter to addressees
- and returns user to the previous
- command level.
- *SUB,desc - Replaces the Subject: of the letter
- with "desc".
- *TO,addr - Replaces the addresses in the TO:
- list with "addr".
- *UPLOAD - Accepts ASCII (X-on/X-off) upload
- from your disk. Make sure your
- telecommunications software will
- expand blank lines or that you have
- put a <SPACE> before each <RETURN>
- on each blank line.
- *X - Erases the text of current letter and
- returns to previous command level.
-
-
- ====================
- Upload a Text Letter
- ====================
-
- Create a letter offline using your personal computer and the word processing
- software you're familiar with! Then, upload the finished letter and send it to
- other GEnie subscribers. Keep the following tips in mind to make the process go
- more smoothly.
-
- When creating the letter in your word processor, make sure NOT to use any
- special formatting characters (like TABS or 'curled quotes'). Put a <SPACE>
- before the <RETURN> on every blank line (GE Mail will ignore a <RETURN> by
- itself on a line in text upload mode). Do NOT allow an asterisk "*" to be the
- first character on any line (GE Mail will interpret the asterisk as an editing
- command an will reject that line of text).
-
- When you save the letter in your word processor, make sure you save it as TEXT
- ONLY. The format of most word processor documents is not compatible with GE
- Mail.
-
- Once the letter is ready to send, log on to GEnie and select "Upload a Text
- Letter" from the menu. You'll be prompted for TO:, Carbon Copy: and Subject:,
- just the same as with a letter created online. Then, instead of a line number
- prompt, you'll see "READY FOR INPUT". When you receive the "READY FOR INPUT"
- message, instruct your telecommunications software to perform an ASCII upload
- (this could appear in your software as "send a text file" or "X-on/X-off" as
- well).
-
- When the file transmission is complete, press your <BREAK> key (you set this up
- the first time you logged on to GEnie). After a few seconds you'll receive a
- line number prompt. At this point you can *LIST the letter to confirm that the
- upload was successful or *SEND it.
-
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- Search GE Mail Directory
- ========================
-
- Don't know someone's GE Mail address? Don't panic! You can use Search GE Mail
- Directory to find the GE Mail address of any GEnie subscriber.
-
- Select this option and you'll be prompted to "Enter Last Name". If you're not
- sure of the exact spelling, you can also enter a fragment of the name (e.g.,
- "William" would find "Williams", "Williamsen" and "Williamson"). Next, you'll
- be prompted to enter "First Name" or "<RETURN> for all".
-
- The system searches the GE Mail address database and a list of names and
- addresses will be displayed on your screen. If your search finds more than 20
- possible matches, you'll receive a message showing the number of matches and
- you will be given the option of "refining" your search using First Name,
- State/Province or Country. If the search was too broad, you'll be prompted to
- start over again.
-
-
- ====================
- GE Mail Command Mode
- ====================
-
- GE Mail Command Mode is a powerful tool for the more advanced subscriber. This
- is where you can review letters which you've already read (they're no longer
- flagged as "new") but are still less than 5 days old, display letters using
- several different options (for example, letters FROM a specific user or FROM
- you; letters sent on, before or after a specified date; etc.), upload a batch
- of letters which you prepared offline all in one text file and forward letters
- to other people.
-
- For a complete list of the capabilities of GE Mail Command Mode, please type
- HELP at the "Command?" prompt in GE Mail Command Mode or consult your GEnie
- User Guide.
-
-
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- Attached Files
- ==============
-
- Attached Files allows you to send and receive binary files via electronic mail.
- You can send spreadsheets, scripts, or text files to any GEnie user, using an
- error-checking protocol.
-
- Use the Send (Upload) Attached Files to transmit a file using XMODEM, use the
- Receive (Download) Attached Files to receive a file using XMODEM, YMODEM, or
- ZMODEM. The Receive Attached Files option allows for batch downloads and can
- download up to 16 files during one session.
-
- You will receive a normal GE Mail message that will tell you that you have an
- attached file waiting, if a user has sent you one.
-
- Attached Files is an easy, fast way to send data (of any sort) to another GEnie
- user.