This function is activated by entering the term, pine.

pine<rtn>

The following screen comes up on your terminal. The beginning screen has the FOLDER LIST line highlighted. The program will tell you how many messages are waiting for you. This mailing program doesn't distinguish between new, unread mail and old saved messages in the INBOX portion of your mail folder. If you want to have this message really mean something, get in the practice of reading and moving mail out of the INBOX into a folder or deleting it each time you receive a new piece of electronic mail.

 PINE 4.10   MAIN MENU                             Folder: INBOX 0 Messages   

      ?     HELP               -  Get help using Pine
      C     COMPOSE MESSAGE    -  Compose and send a message
      I     FOLDER INDEX       -  View messages in current folder
      L     FOLDER LIST        -  Select a folder to view
      A     ADDRESS BOOK       -  Update address book
      S     SETUP              -  Configure or update Pine
      Q     QUIT               -  Exit the Pine program



 Copyright 1989-1999.  PINE is a trademark of the University of Washington.
                   [Folder "INBOX" opened with 0 messages]
Help                     P PrevCmd                  R RelNotes
OTHER CMDS L [ListFldrs] N NextCmd                  K KBLock

To send a message, either move the cursor with the arrow keys up to the Compose Message line or press the c key. Once in compose mode, the following screen appears on the screen (this is a reduced version of the actual image on your terminal). You start your message by entering an account name in the To: line. Pressing the RETURN key will cause the account name to become more complete for an account on the same machine and moves you down to the next line. Just press the RETURN key again until you are down on the Subject: line. On this line enter a short line to describe the message. After pressing the RETURN key, you are ready to enter your message.

 PINE 4.10   COMPOSE MESSAGE                       Folder: INBOX 0 Messages   

To      :account name
Cc      :
Attchmnt:
Subject :short description
----- Message Text -----

///////////////  empty space until the bottom of the screen ///////////////

Get Help  ^X Send      ^R Rich Hdr  ^Y PrvPg/Top ^K Cut Line  ^O Postpone
Cancel    ^D Del Char  ^J Attach    ^V NxtPg/End ^U UnDel Line^T To
AddrBk

The PINE program uses the pico editor for creating its messages. When your message is complete, press the Ctrl and x keys at the same time to send it off. The help section at the bottom of the screen uses a ^ symbol to denote the Ctrl key. The following lines appear at the bottom of the screen. Enter y to send the message.

Send message? y 
 ? Help      Y [Yes]
^C Cancel    N No

You are returned to the main menu. The following line, [Message sent and copied to "sent-mail".], appears at the bottom of the screen. At this point to exit the program you can enter q , or use the arrow keys to move the highlighted line down to the Quit line and press the RETURN key. At the bottom of the screen, the following lines appear as given on the next page.

Really quit pine ? y
Y [Yes]
N No

Enter a y and you are returned to the machine prompt. After you have been in the pine mailer a new file will appear in the main directory of your account, pine-debug1. There will be a maximum of four of these files and they are due to the way the mailer was installed on the system. There are other files that are pine-related. These are .addressbook, .addressbook.lu and .pinerc. Do not delete these files. They are required by the PINE program.

Pine finished -- Closed empty folder "INBOX"