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Viewing Attachments from Pine Email using version 2.0 of the UM Internet Access Kit

Overview

Pine email itself is unable to view attachments. To view the attachments you must first save the attachment to a file in your IFS home directory then go in with an FTP program and retrieve the file.

Saving the attachment to a file in your IFS home directory

Use Pine to open the email which contains the attachment.

Press "V" to enter the attachment index.

Select the attached file and press "S" to save it to a file

At the bottom of your Pine screen a line will appear that reads: "Copy attachment to file in home directory:"

If a file name appears to the right of this line just remember this name and hit "return".
If a file name does not appear here give the file a name and hit return.

Now hit "E" to exit the attachment index. You should now be back at your email message.

Retrieving the attachment through Rapid Filer

1. Start the program Rapid Filer. (If you have Windows 95 and the Windows 95 Internet Access Kit Version 2.0, then you can find it under the "Start" button under the "Windows 95 Internet Access Kit" folder.)

2. When you start the program a box will pop up that is titled "Open a Remote File System".

3. Make sure that in the box titled: "Remote Host Name" it says "login.itd.umich.edu".

4. In the box titled "User Name" type your uniqname.

5. In the box titled "Password" type your password. (the one you use for pine email)

6. Then click the "open" button in the bottom left corner of the dialog box.

7. Now when you are connected the screen will be split into a top and bottom half. The bottom will be your IFS home directory and the top will be your local hard drive.(it usually defaults to the directory C:\net\bin)

8. Change the directory on the top half of the screen to the directory in which you want to store your attachment.

9. Click on the file in the bottom half of the screen that you wish to move and then click the "Copy" button. Your file should now be copied to your hard drive in the directory showing on the top half of the screen.

10. Now you can exit "Rapid Filer" by choosing the "File" menu and clicking on "Exit".

11. Now your file should be able to be viewed by whatever program created it such as Word or Excel.

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