| Overview |
Goals for this Topic:
- How to use email to contact your instructor and classmates
- Understand the uses and security issues of telnet vs secure shell
(ssh)
- Try out a few of the other classic UNIX communication tools
Files/directories and commands:
- pine
- finger
- ssh vs telnet
- talk
- write
- mesg
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| Questions |
- How do you use pine?
- How do you check out pine's online help?
- How do you check to see if you have email?
- How do you do the following with your email in pine?
- Read it
- Reply or forward
- Delete it
- Create and send
- What does telnet/shh allow you to do? Why is telnet fading in use?
- What are the advantages/disadvantages of talk/write?
- What is a .plan file?
- How do you set up a permanent forward in unix for email?
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| Activities & Assignments |
- Send the instructor an email with a paragraph or two about yourself to
his mcunix address, username pwa
- Send an email to someone else in the class (ask them first) and have
them send one to you
- Set up a .signature file and a simple .plan file (ctrl g to get help
in pine)
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| Resources |
- man pages for the commands (see next topic on finding answers)
- while in pine, hit ctrl g to access it's online help
- All About
PINE
- Using
Pine with GPG for encrypted email
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