QUESTION: ``On the webpage you said that we can use pine email to submit our homework by just using ^R. When I do this, a bunch of other options pop us such as Newgrps, Fcc, Lcc and I don't know what to do with them. ''
Answer (from TA Archi):
I am assuming you are using your ACF account which
uses the email program called pine. Now, pine, by default
uses the editor called pico.
[But you can change this default editor to others
that you like, such as vi or emacs.]
To start a reply under pine, you press r, with the arrow/cursor
over the message you want to reply to. At that point, pine asks a
bunch of question: Do you want to include the old text; do you want
to reply to everyone (if the original mail was sent to more than
one person).
To send a new mail, the command is c (for compose new mail). This
shows a header for things like who to send the mail to, whether to cc:
anyone, whether to include attachments etc., with the actual mail body
visible in the lower part of the screen/terminal-window. Once you get
to this message part, pico (or your editor of choice) takes over.
In pico, the command to read in a text file is ^R (control-R).
So to submit the home work, press c to start a new message; fill in
the necessary headers, then hit enter or the down arrow till the cursor
reaches the message composition area. There you have to type ^R to
include your file. In fact you can even start writing stuff, and
then where you have to actually put the source code, hit ^R...