You will need a computer account in order to participate in receiving and sending electronic mail messages and in carrying out other class assignments on the internet. An on-line registration procedure has been set up by ACNS.

Computer terminals are available at several places on campus, including Dirac Science Library, Strozier Library, and 317 Carothers and 331 University Union. Some dormitories also have internet connections. (Those of you who have a computer with a modem, see the remote access information below.) Some of these will have a DOS prompt, in which case you type telnet register.acns.fsu.edu. Some will have a menu, from which you pick "Network", then "Other", and at the telnet> prompt type: register.acns.fsu.edu. If the machine has Windows 95, you can click on the "run" selection from the start menu and type telnet register.acns.fsu.edu. If you do not have a computer account, then at the login prompt type: newuser, and at the password prompt type: public. If you already have a computer account and are just adding your name to the class mailing list, then at the login prompt type: newclass, and at the password prompt type: public. You must have with you:

A current FSU ID Card

Your Social Security Number

Follow the instructions. You will be given an account name and a password. Write them down exactly as they appear. Case is important (C is different from c). Your account will be ready in about 24 hours.

Registration is also possible through a World Wide Web browser such as Netscape, which is available on many of the computers. Open the uniform resource locator (URL)

http://register.acns.fsu.edu

and follow the appropriate links.

Once your account is activated, to access it you telnet (as above) to garnet.acns.fsu.edu. (Or pick garnet from the telnet menu). Log in with your account name and the password you were given. You will be asked to give a new password at this time. It should contain at least six characters, including one non-alphanumeric character and a mixture of upper case and lower case characters. Have one ready, and have it written somewhere so you don't forget it. Do not share your password with others--they would be able to access your account. There is an option on the menu to change your password at a later time if you wish.

Those of you with a computer off campus equipped with a modem can obtain a PPP (point to point protocol) account that gives you a connection to the internet through your modem, provided your computer has sufficient capacity. You should pick up software and instructions from 317 Carothers. The software also includes email, telnet, and web browsing programs, including software to connect to the LUIS system. Bring five 3.5 inch high density disks with you. The dial in access number is 644-2700, and this number supports all modem speeds. You will be given instructions about installing and using your PPP account.

For obtaining only a telnet connection to garnet in order to check your mail, or if your computer only supports simpler terminal emulator software, when you dial 644-2700, login as FSU, and give the password public. This will bring you to a menu for telnet connections. If you plan to do any file downloading through the connection, you should pick rlogin from the menu.

Garnet is a UNIX machine. If you are familiar with UNIX, you can get out of the menu system to the UNIX prompt. Most of you who are novices will want to use the menus to explore the system. From the first menu, pick 1. services. Then for reading and sending email, pick elm or pine. Both are fairly easy to use once you get the hang of it. Pine is probably the more user friendly. A copy of instructions about "Managing Your Mail with Elm" and "Secrets of Pine" are in the "Light CHM 1046" notebook on reserve in Dirac Library. You may make copies, but do not remove the original. (Pine also has good on line help information.)

You should do two things immediately to configure your account for use. Pick settings from the main menu, and chfn from the next menu, and at the prompt type your name. This will cause your real name as well as your account name to appear in the header of your mail messages, so you are easier to identify. (You should still sign the messages). Second, if you are using elm, when you are in elm, type o at the prompt (for options), and then the letter U (for user) and hit the space bar to change this options from beginner to intermediate, hit the enter key, and then type > and enter to save the new options. This change gives you more options for your mail messages, such as saving one to a named file as opposed to a folder.

You will also be interested in the menu item tass, which allows you to read posted news announcements of many news groups. After entering the number for tass, enter g followed by fsu.class.chm1046-01 at the newsgroup prompt. That is where I will post answers to some questions, announcements, etc. You can post something there by sending mail to chm1046-01-news. There are other newsreader programs on the menu that I don't know anything about. Those of you using Netscape can configure it to read news items. Select news.fsu.edu as the default newsreader (using the Options menu, mail and news preferences). Pick Netscape News under the Window menu, right click on the news.fsu.edu folder, pick "show all newsgroups", then you can explore the listed newsgroups. When you find fsu.class.chm1046-01, subscribe to it by clicking in the box next to it or by right clicking and picking "subscribe". Click on the newsgroup to open it, and the messages appear in the right window. Click on a message to open and read it.

Practice sending each other mail. You can send me mail by addressing it to rlight if you are logged onto garnet, or rlight@garnet.acns.fsu.edu if you are on another machine. Your friends, relatives, etc. anywhere in the world can send you messages by addressing xxxxxxx@garnet.acns.fsu.edu, where xxxxxxx is your login account number.

Check your email daily, or at least every couple of days. Also check the newsgroup. I plan to communicate a number of things to you in this way.

Printing from your email account is a little involved, and it could be different depending on where you log in. If you are using pine as your mail program, and you have a printer attached to your PC, you may be able to print your message directly by picking the print command (Y) in pine. You should get the message "Print message to "attached-to-ansi"? Pick "yes" and see if it prints. If not, check the pine help file and the settings file to configure printing for "attached-to-ansi".

If your PC doesn't allow for direct printing in this fashion, you need to get your message from garnet to your local PC by a process known as "downloading", and there are several different procedures depending on the software you are using to hook up. For those in Dirac and Strozier you transfer by the FTP protocol. Go through the following steps. You need to have your own floppy disc to put in Drive A or B. After reading your message, type s (for save) (from elm) or E (for export) (from pine) and give it a name (better to be 8 letters or less, so the name is compatible for a DOS file later). Let's call it "problem1" for example. The message is then saved as a file in your home directory on garnet. Type x to exit elm, or q to quit pine to get main menu, and q to quit garnet. (Before quitting, you can verify that the file is in the correct place by going to the Unix prompt, then typing ls or ls -l which will list all the files in your home directory). After logging off garnet go to the FTP selection on the PC menu, or at the DOS prompt type:

You get the following prompt after logging in with your password:

ftp>

Type "get problem1" (or whatever filename you saved the message to, without the quotes). You are then back to the home PC, with the file in your local directory. Either use the DOS print command (print problem1), or load the file into a word processor and print from there after formatting to your taste. If you are logged in from a modem, there will be some other downloading procedure I am not familiar with.

Dr. Light