Email on the Lehman College Alpha
When your teacher gets an account for you, write down your login=username
and your password.
Do this carefully: upper case letters (capitals) differ from lower
case letters.
Your e-mail address is <your login/username>@alpha.lehman.cuny.edu
Log in = connect:
1)On the Lehman.C. campus where most computers have
a direct connection:
click Start, click Run -- type
telnet:alpha -- press the Enter key
at the prompt, type your
login/user name -- all lower case -- press Enter
at the prompt, type your
password and press the Enter key.
If you get an error message because you made a typo, press Enter and start
over.
2)Off campus and in our labs:
If you have an ISP (=Internet
Service Provider), first go online
then click Start, click Run --type telnet://alpha.lehman.cuny.edu -- press
the Enter key.
Once connected, type pine and press Enter.
First time: If you need accents etc., for German and/or Romance languages:
On the Mainmenu, press S(etup), C(onfigure). Then press
the spacebar about 11 times, till you see
Character-set. Change this to ISO-8859-1 (which is the International
character set).
Pine -- the name of the e-mail package on the Alpha:
Online tutorials: Inter-Links
Pine Page, Cutting
down Pine
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