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Dealing with attachments in Pine at SI:
I. Extracting the Attachment:
After you've logged into login.si.umich.edu via SSH
and started pine, the first thing you have to do is extract, or separate, the
attachment from the e-mail message, and save it to your SI AFS home directory.
This AFS directory is your default file storage area when you connect to
login.si.umich.edu, so this is where any attachments will be saved when they
are extracted. To extract an attachment:
- Start up pine.
- look at a message that has an attachment.
- Type a ">" by holding down the "Shift" key and hit the
"." button.
- From the resulting list, use the up and down arrow keys to highlight the attachment
you want to extract.
- Type "s" and then the "Enter/Return" key to extract and
save the attachment file in your AFS home directory.
- Type "q" and then "y" key to quit out of pine. If it asks
whether you want expunge any messages you marked for deletion, type "y"
or "n" depending on
whether you want to really expunge them.
II. Using FTP via Internet Explorer to get the Attachment:
Now you have to move the extracted attachment file from your AFS space down to
the desktop machine you are working on so you can open it there:
- Start up Internet Explorer.
- In the "Address" window, type in "ftp.si.umich.edu" (without
the quotes)
- Go up to the "File" menu and choose "Login As..." from
it.
- Put in your uniqname for the "User Name:" and your SI Kerberos password
in the "Password:" and then click on the "Login" button
- In the resulting window, find the attachment document that you extracted and
click on it once with the right mouse button
- Choose "Copy To Folder..." from the resulting menu.
- From the resulting window, navigate around your desktop computers hard drive
hierarchy until you find the folder where you want to save the document, click
on that folder once with the left mouse button, and then on the "OK"
button with a single left mouse button click.
- You should now be able to find and open the document where you saved it.
III. Deleting the Extracted Attachment from your SI AFS Space:
If you don't want to keep the extracted copy of the attachment up in your SI
AFS space, then you'll need to delete it from there:
- Go back to the Internet Explorer window with your connection to ftp.si.umich.edu
and find the extracted document listed there
- Click on the attachment once with the right mouse button and choose "Delete"
- Click on the "Yes" button in the resulting confirmation window.
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