(the first time you use pine you will get some introductory text-this will only appear the first time you run the program).

You can select main menu options two different ways:

• Use the arrow keys on the keyboard to highlight the option you want, then hit enter.
• Type the letter next to the option you want (e.g., type ? to get help). You do not need to hit enter after selecting a menu option. Also, available commands (and their keys) are displayed at the bottom of the screen.

To quit pine, select quit from the main menu. You will be asked if you really want to quit; type Y. If you are done using UNIX, don't forget to enter exit at the prompt to log off.

Checking you Inbox
Incoming mail is stored in your inbox. To look at the contents of the inbox, thype the letter I from the Main Menu (or highlight the index option using the arrow keys and press enter). Your index will look something like this:
 

The index describes information about your incoming mail. Towards the left of the index is the message number (in this case, messages range from 1 to 11). To the right of the message number are columns for:
    Date Sent     Person who sent the mail     Size of the message     Subject of the message

To the lseft of the message number is more information:

• the letter A indicates that you have responded to that message,
• the letter N indicates that you haven't read the message yet,
• the letter D indicates that the messgae has been marked for deletion.
• a plus (+) indicates that you were the only recipient of that message.

Viewing Incoming Mail
After selecting the  message you want from the Inbox and selcting the View Message command, you'll get something that looks like this:
 

Again, the available commands are listed in the bottom two lines. Note on the left hand side of the lines of commands there's a selsction for "Other Cmds".
Some commands of note (some of which are seen only by choosing the Other Cmds option):

• Hit I for Index View, to get you back to the previous view of your inbox
• Choose Main Menu to get all the way back to the Main menu
• Notice on the top line I'm seeing all of the message - if not it will show a percentage and you can use the arrow keys to scroll up and down to view thee rest of the message.
• Use the Reply command to send mail back to the person who sent you the message you are looking at. When you choose the Reply command Pine will ask you two questions: 1. Include Original Message in Reply? Answer yes to insert the text of the current message into your reply.   2. Reply to all Recipients? If you are not the only recipient of a message, you can answer yes to this question and send mail back to everyone who got the message. Choose yes only if  what you're going to write back is something that eveyone needs to know about.
• Choose the Delete option to mark the messsage for deletion. Messages are not immediately deleted (you can choose Undelete to remove the deletion mark), but rather are deleted when you exit Pine-Pine will ask if you want to "Expunge the messgaes from the Inbox".

In this screen fill in the following fields, using the arrow keys to select the different fields:

• Enter the e-mail address of the person you're sending mail to in the To: field. If you're sending mail to someone else on the same machine you only need to enter their login ID, otherwise enter their full e-mail address.
• Enter the address of anyone else you would like to recieve the message in the CC: feild.
• Enter the name of the file you'd like to attach in the Attchmnt: field
• Enter the subject of your mail in the Subject: field.
• Enter the text of your message in the Message Text area.

Some more notes on sending messages:

• Choosing the Reply option when looking at the message will bring you to this screen. It will also fill in the To: and Subject: fields for you. if you answer yes when Pine asks if you want to "Include Original message in Reply", that original message will be listed in the Message Text are as well
• Depending on the terminal emulation program you use, it may appear that the changes you make to your mesage are overwriting parts of your message. this is not the case! Use the ^L (that's control-L) option to refresh the screen, so what you see is what you get.