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- @PrefaceSection(Preface)
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- The electronic mail system MM runs on CUCCA's unix-based computers.
- If you have an account on one of those machines, you are welcome to
- use MM to communicate with people on campus or around the world.
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- All faculty and staff of Columbia University are being offered free
- accounts with a limited amount of connect time and disk space. For
- information, call the Academic Computing Help Desk at 854-4854. The
- host computer is known as "Mail" or cunixf.
-
- Students (and faculty using computers for instruction) have accounts on
- cunixa, cunixb or cunixd. There is a fee for students. To arrange for
- an account, contact the Business Office, 854-3555.
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- @b[MM FROM YOUR OWN PC]
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- Many MM users connect from their own PC's, on campus or off. That
- makes it convenient to check mail every day, or many times a day.
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- The booklet @p(Preparing for Data Communi@_cations with the PBX) gives
- details of how to connect through the ROLM phone system on the
- Morningside Campus. If you order the @i(data phone option) from
- Telecommuni@_cations (854-6254), you can simply run a cable between your
- PC's serial port and the connector built into the ROLM data phone. No
- modem is used.
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- From off campus, you can dial in to the ROLM PBX using a modem. The
- phone numbers are 854-1812 and 854-1824. They connect at 2400, 1200 or
- 300 baud.
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- Connections can also be made through some departmental computers on
- the Morningside Campus and at the Health Sciences Campus. Contact
- your local departmental administrator for details.
-
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- @b[COMMUNICATIONS SOFTWARE]
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- No matter how you connect, you need communications software to let
- your PC act as a terminal. Columbia supports software called
- @i(Kermit), available for both MS-DOS PC's and Macintosh. Kermit can
- also transfer files between your PC and the MM host computer.
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- Macintosh and MS-DOS Kermit can be copied free at the Business Office,
- 102 Philosophy Hall; bring your own disk. At the Business Office, you
- can also purchase Kermit disks and manuals, and get free handouts.
- For more information on Kermit, contact Kermit Information at
- 854-3703.
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- @b[LOGGING IN]
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- Information on how to log in is contained in the handout @p(Using MM).
- You should get it when you get your account. Once you log in, you can
- start MM.
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- @b[PUBLICATIONS]
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- You can get all the publications mentioned here at the Academic
- Computing Business Office, 102 Philosophy Hall, 854-3555. The
- microcomputer labs at 215 International Affairs and 251 Mudd also have
- the handouts and reference copies of the manuals.
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