Up in the header area where it says Attachment arrow to that
line and hit the key combination Control-j. Then type in the filename or
hit control-t to view your stored files and then arrow to and press enter
on the file desired. You can then add a description line if you wish (I
usually don't myself and instead describe it in the Body of the message).
When the recipient on another Pine system receives the message they
can hit a V and then save the file you sent and then go download it from
their file transfer area on their system.
Be careful and don't send files bigger than the systems permit or you
may crash the recipients's mailbox. *Never* send a binary file
unsolicited to someone...you may crash their box. On TENET our limit is 1 MB.
Please be aware there is overhead size added to the size of your
file...usually about 15-20%.
The use of the header attachment in PINE is called MIME (Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions) and it is a growing standard in the world
Internet community. It's best to ask your intended recipient if they can
handle MIME instead of assuming they can do so.
If they can't handle MIME they can handle another way of sending and
receiving binary files via mail. That method is the use of uuencoding and
decoding a text message. Software is available at both Mac and PC
repositories that will enable people to send binary files that are
actually encoded in the body of the text message. It is more complicated
to achieve this for novices, but if you need help write me and I will
assist you in learning what is needed to do this.
Russell Smith rssmith@tenet.edu rssmith@camalott.com
Region 14 ESC Abilene, Tx Edtech Consultant, Certified teacher, Journalist