Unix: Visual QuickStart Guide

Reading e-mail with pine

It's likely that your first step in using pine will be to read e-mail. As Figure 11.4 through Figure 11.7 show, you start by entering the pine command, then work screen by screen, depending on what you want to do.

To read e-mail with pine:

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pine At the shell prompt, type pine to start the program. The first time you use pine, it will ask you if you want to view a help file (see Figure 11.4) before you get started. Thereafter, you'll see the normal main screen, as shown in Figure 11.5. Figure 11.4. When you start pine for the first time, it will ask whether you want help before you begin. Figure 11.5. You'll become ...