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- HOW TO USE PC MAIL
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- 1. MAKE A BACKUP of this disk!
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- 2. Read this document and any others in the DOCS directory on your PCMAIL:
- disk.
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- 3. Modify your PROFILE file--in the PCMAIL:usr/lib/uucp directory--to
- reflect the SPEED of your modem (the second line from the bottom of the
- file).
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- 4. Modify your SYSTEMS file-in the PCMAIL:usr/lib/uucp directory--to
- reflect your modem speed at the dialing exchange your system will be
- calling from:
- ATTD - for TONE dialing
- ATTP - for PULSE dialing
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- You should be sure that the entire file is on ONE line.
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- 5. Change your Serial preferences on your main SYS: disk (by loading the
- Preferences program) to reflect the following:
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- Read Bits - 8
- Write Bits - 8
- Stop Bits - 1
- Parity - NONE
- Handshaking - NONE
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- PC Mail uses a different method for reading, composing, and dispatching
- mail from what you are probably used to with other bulletin board systems.
- With PC Mail, you compose your mail locally on your own PC and then
- transmit the message to your concentrator site at full transmission speeds.
- When your mail has been sent, the concentrator site will then send you any
- messages you have waiting and any news from the boards you have signed up
- for. The concentrator site then signs off, and you can view your mail and
- news using your favourite text editor at your leisure.
-
- [Note by Johan Widen. I have not provided the script uu. Use uupc directly.
- The ideal way to use uucp is to start it with AmiCron, an Amiga implmentation
- of the UNIX cron program. However, you can get by quite well by running
- uupc manually. The magic formula is
- uupc -r1 -s<system>
- You can get debugging output if you supplu the switch -x<debuglevel> whwre
- <debuglevel> is a number between 0 and 9 (4 is a good start). Example:
- uupc -r1 -ssics -x4
- Look at dcp.c to learn more about what you can do.]
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- PC Mail itself consists of two programs, "uu" and "mail". Use "uu" to
- communicate with the remote concentrator site--that is, to send and receive
- mail, messages, or news; use "mail" to prepare your own messages or news to
- be sent to the concentrator site by "uu".
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- UU
- **
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- "uu" is the program that dials VNET (or van-bc, as it is called), connects,
- and sends and receives your mail and your subscribed News Groups messages.
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- Check that your modem is on line, ready to send; also make sure that the PC
- Mail disk is the current directory by typing "CD PCMail:". Now use the
- "uu" program to send and receive mail, messages, or news by typing:
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- uu -svan-bc
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- Note that there is no space between the "-s" and the remote concentrator
- site, in this case "van-bc", to which you are sending your message.
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- The "uu" program will automatically dial, connect to, and sign in to
- "van-bc" using your PC's address and your password. "uu" will then send
- your mail (if you have any to send) and will prepare to receive any news or
- mail waiting for you. When all mail has been transferred, "uu" will hang
- up.
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- MAIL
- ****
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- You need to know the following information:
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- - the name of the remote concentrator site. Stuart's board is
- "van-bc".
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- - the "Domain" or address of the person to whom you are sending
- the message.
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- Let's say, for illustration purposes, that you want to send a message to
- Stuart asking him for access to the Amiga news board, "comp.sys.amiga".
- Stuart's address is "sl@van-bc".
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- First, use your favourite text editor to compose your mail. Next, save it.
- Let's say that the name of the saved mail file is "ram:mymail". Now, make
- the PC Mail disk the root directory by typing "CD PCMail:". To prepare
- your mail to be sent to "van-bc" by "uu", type:
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- Mail <ram:mymail -s "Request for access to comp.sys.amiga" sl@van-bc
-
- - the subject of your message is introduced by "-s"
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- - the subject title, in this case "Request for access to
- comp.sys.amiga", must be enclosed in quotation marks.
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- - the address, in this case "sl@van-bc", follows the subject.
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- After you type the above command, the "mail" program will now copy your
- message to a spool directory on your PC Mail disk, ready to transmit to the
- concentrator site, and at the same time, will save a copy of your letter in
- your own personal mailbox in a file called "mail.sent".
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- WHO CAN YOU SEND MAIL TO?
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- Other registered VNET users are:
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- dave@daami.vnet
- jlydiatt@jlami.vnet
- steve@slrami.vnet
- lphillips@lpami.vnet
- bhenning@bhami.vnet
- joel@jmami.vnet
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- You will automatically be subscribed to the group vnet.info. As the number
- of registered users increases, there will be welcome messages in this
- group.
-
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- SENDING MAIL TO MORE THAN ONE ADDRESS
- *************************************
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- To send a mail message to more than one UseNet address, simply add the
- additional address or addresses to the outgoing mail. For example:
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- mail <ram:mymail -s "Hi Guys!" dave@daami.vnet jlydiatt@jlami.vnet
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- VIEWING MAIL
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- By typing "mail" by itself at the PCMAIL: level, you will get a listing of
- the mail (if any) in your box. Type a question mark at the numbered prompt
- for more information about using "mail".
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- If there is any mail in your mailbox, this is what you should see:
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- -----------------------------
- Opening profile
- New filename RAM:T/mailbox
- New filename RAM:T/mailbag
- New filename :Mailbox/name <---where "name" is your name.
-
- 0 11 Aug Dave Allen Testing ( 0)
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- 0?
- -----------------------------
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- The "0?" is the numbered prompt referred to earlier, and at this point, you
- can type a question mark,"?", to view your options. Please note that not
- all options are implemented at this time.
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- WHERE DO YOU FIND THINGS?
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- Here's where to find any news or messages you have received from the
- concentrator site:
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- News: is located in the directory "PCMail:RNews". You will find that the
- news comes packaged in bundles of 100,000 characters or less, and there may
- therefore be more than one bundle waiting for you. There bundles all have
- four digit numbers as file names. Use your favourite editor to browse
- through the files.
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- Mail: can be read using the same mail program you used to send out your
- messages. Simply type "mail" with no other parameters, and you will be
- presented with a menu showing an itemized list of messages you can view or
- with a message telling you that you have no mail. "mail" will tell you
- what your options are if you type a question mark at the numbered prompt.
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- SOME HINTS FOR EFFICIENT USE
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- Conserve disk space. News will come in pretty regularly, and you will
- find that if you do not delete the files as you read them, you will quickly
- fill up the disk. I like to save the files on a separate disk and delete
- the news bundles as soon as they come in.
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- PC Mail also keeps a log of your activity which can grow significantly.
- You should also delete this file, called "logfile", occasionally so it does
- not get too out of hand. You can find it in the directory
- "PCMail:usr/spool/uucp".
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- PC Mail also keeps a copy of ALL messages you have sent in the file
- "PCMail:Mailbox/mail.sent". You should also delete this file occasionally
- to conserve disk space.
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- NOTE
- ****
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- The complete software is not yet implemented as it is still in the
- development stage for the Amiga. Any suggestions or changes to the current
- version should be sent to jlydiatt@jlami.vnet for distribution.
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- Please forward suggestions for this file to dave@daami.vnet.
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- Thank you.
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