An Inessential Guide to Athena

Fifth Edition

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• Contents
• Purpose and Conventions
• SIPB and /mit/sipb: who? what? when? where? why? how?
• MH Alternatives: mh-rmail, rmail, and pmail
  • Mh-rmail
    • Starting mh-rmail:
    • Commands for reading your mail
      • Reading other messages
      • Deleting and refiling messages
    • Sending mail
      • Draft mode commands
      • Other commands
    • Variables that can be set.
  • Rmail
    • Starting rmail
    • Reading mail
    • Deleting... the concept
    • Taking inventory
    • Ackphtpp!...there are multiple buffers displayed in my emacs
    • Sending mail
    • Sending mail without invoking rmail
    • Filing mail
    • Saving mail
    • Exiting rmail
    • Re-entering rmail
    • More mail?
    • Aliasing in rmail
    • Other random things...
• Zephyr: When you care enough to send the very best
  • What is Zephyr?
  • How do I send a message?
  • How do I send to more than one person?
  • How do I ``subscribe'' to these ``instances''?
  • Aargh! I have three papers due tomorrow and everyone's zwriting me! Help!
  • How can I tell if someone's logged in?
  • How do I tell people I'm not at the terminal?
  • How do I customize Zephyr?
• An introduction to Discuss
  • What is Discuss?
  • Keeping track of meetings
  • Using Discuss
    • Initial setup
  • Finding interesting meetings
  • Saying something
  • More help
  • Credits
• Usenet: Talking to the world without paying long-distance bills
  • The Usenet...
  • Using rn on Athena.
  • Hints and tips
• The Andrew Filesystem
  • AFS Volume? Why do I care how loud my files are?
  • How do I use
  • Authenticating to AFS
  • File protections under AFS
  • Where to go for more
• Lost Contact With File Server
  • What This Means To You
  • What Did All That Mean?
  • So What Did I Lose?
  • So What Should I Worry About?
  • But I Can't Save My Files!
  • Command Not Found
• Useful Lockers
  • Why Kerberos is needed.
• Athena glue-all, or Your Fate
  • Things Not To Do
  • How to manage lists
  • Getting information through moira
  • What are you waiting for?
  • But wait! There's more
• Acknowledgments and other randomness
• About this document ...