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**** The Hebrew University of Jerusalem ****
**** Computation Center ****
News Bulletin #52
6-April-1994
Today's topics:
- Pine/Pico Email readers available.
- Modems setup.
- X.500 database searches.
o Pine+Pico - Pine is an Email reader whose concept is similar to
BMAIL. It is a menu oriented interface which supports MIME (which
allows Hebrew and non-text message transfer). The main differences
between BMAIL and PINE are that PINE is common on Unix and PC
systems, and that PINE uses VMS/MAIL files and not BMAIL's files.
Thus, it can be used by those who use today VMS/MAIL and can be
intermixed with it (i.e. using VMS/MAIL to read some messages and
PINE for the same ones or others).
Pico is a simple editor used inside Pine to compose messages.
The guides of it are available at GUIDES$ directory as PINE*.TXT
(three guides).
There are a few restrictions with the VMS version:
1. After reading mail from the NEWMAIL folder (called also INBOX in
Pine) and deleting some messages you can't go directly to another
folder but must exit PINE and re-enter it again.
2. WASTEBASKET folder is not supported. You can undelete messages
as long as you did not close the folder. When the folder is
closed the messages are actually deleted.
3. Attachments do not work at the present version; they will work at
the next version which was not released yet by the original
authors of Pine (from the Unversity of Washington).
Credits: The Hebrew version was done by Helen Zomer from the Unix
group of the computation center.
o Modems setup: We've found that most modems come with the default
setup of RDL enabled (RDL = Remote Data Loop). This allows the
other modem to request the local modem to get into test mode (and
usually making the connection stuck). In some occassions this mode
is entered without specific request. In order to prevent it turn
your RDL to off; you'll have to look at your modem's book how to do
it; it is usually a command like AT&T or AT%T. On Dynamode M14
modems it is done with the command AT&T5.
__Yehavi:
o X.500 database search:
How to find the E-mail address of the Hebrew University network users
A new Directory Service is available now at the Computation Center;
it allows users to query for the E-mail address of somebody from the Hebrew
University, using the common "finger" command, available on most of
the systems.
All you have to do is to execute the finger command (from any computer which
supports this command) with the name of the person you are looking for.
The name specified doesn't have to be spelled precisely; the searching
algorithm will return all the Directory names which match approximately the
name
requested.
There are two ways to call the "finger" command :
a. The following format can be used if you know only the Lastname or the
Firstname of the person to search:
finger <name(.)>@FINGER.huji.ac.il
where : <name> is user's Lastname or Firstname ( preferable LASTNAME).
'.' is for approximate matching (in case you know the name
approximately)
As a result you will get a list of all the users matching approximately the
specified name, each one with his Department name and his E-mail address.
b. The following format can be used only if you know the Firstname and the
Lastname of the person to search:
finger "Firstname Lastname"@FINGER.huji.ac.il
FINGER.huji.ac.il is the name of the Hebrew University Directory Server.
For example, typing:
finger solmon@FINGER.huji.ac.il
the following list will be displayed :
Juliana Solomon Computation Center juli@shum.cc.huji.ac.il
Claudio Salomon Faculty of Medicine CLAUDIO@md2.huji.ac.il
David Shulman Asian-African Studies SHULMAN@hum.huji.ac.il
Salman CS - Graduate Student salman@cs.huji.ac.il
Sorin Solomon Racah Institute of Physics
sorin@vms.huji.ac.il,sorin@galaxy.fiz.huji.ac.il
Eli Schulman Overseas student mselis@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Cory Shulman School of Education, Humanities
mscory@pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Sue Salomon Soil and Water Sciences SOIL@agri.huji.ac.il
Next, if for instance you want to get more information about Juliana, execute
another finger command, this time specifying both names:
finger "Juliana Solomon"@FINGER.huji.ac.il
For more details, please call Juliana 65-84403 or send mail to juli@shum.
--
Juliana Solomon juli@shum.cc.huji.ac.il (MIME
welcomed)
Computation Center voice: +972-2-584403
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem fax: +972-2-527349
Jerusalem 91904, ISRAEL
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