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Documentation Conventions

Introduction

What You Need to Access E-mail

Using PINE 3.9x E-mail

Using RICE 90.01.01 E-mail on NERVM

Using Netscape Navigator's Integrated E-mail

Using Eudora 3.0.1 E-mail

Quick Reference Cards

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Documentation Conventions:

This document is written with Internet novices in mind. There are some assumptions that you are familiar with computing and in particular PCs. Since the only PC based e-mail software covered runs in the MS Windows environment, you should also be familiar with Windows conventions.

Each section which covers a particular e-mail application has been written to stand alone. That is, you should be able to read that section all by itself and understand it. By doing this there is some duplication of information, but it is minimal.

In order to differentiate between text shown on the screen, text typed in by the user, titles of screens and windows, and labels on buttons, fields, and menus, different font styles are used. Here is a listing of each font style with its usage:

"Quoted Courier Italic" System messages and text.
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Unquoted Courier Larger portions of screen text.
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"Bold Quoted Courier" Text to be entered by user.
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"Bold Italic Quoted Courier" Text to be entered by user substituting information like "your password goes here".
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Italic Font Titles of windows or screens, etc.
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Bold Font Labels or names of buttons, fields, and menus.
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[ Bold ] Square brackets enclose the character or key to be pressed. If it's a key combination like holding the "Ctrl" (control) key while pressing another key, it will be hyphenated. Some examples:
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[Enter]The "Enter" key.
[A]The "A" key.
[Ctrl - C]The "Ctrl" and "C" key combination.

Please keep in mind that the screen shots and sections of example screen text will vary from platform to platform and user to user. They are shown as examples to help you interpret what you will actually see, but they are likely to be a little different. For example, all the screen shots of the MS Windows software where taken with the software running in MS Windows 95. This makes the title bar of each window look a little different, but otherwise it is identical to MS Windows 3.x. All the MS Windows software covered is for 3.x versions of MS Windows.

Notes Regarding This World Wide Web Version:

This HTML version has been designed to look and feel like the original document so far as possible. Of course, Web documents don't have pages in the same sense as a printed document. So in order to move through the document, navigation buttons have been provided.

Typically each page will have a button to the title page called "Home" and a button to the Table of Contents called "Contents". There is also a button at the bottom of each page which will take you to the next section of the document. There is a corresponding button at the top to take you to the previous section. You can also jump to the main QRC page by clicking on the "QRC's" button. The sections for each e-mail application have their own button linked to the specific QRC for that application.

This set of HTML documents was designed with Netscape's Navigator version 2.0x in mind. You should get favorable results with any other capable browser, but it has not been tested on others at this point in time. For best display results you should size your browser window to about 640 pixels wide and as tall as possible. These pages have been designed for a standard VGA display (640x480 at 16 colors), but will look better at higher resolutions and/or colors.

Some of the pages in this document have numerous graphics. If you're using a computer with limited memory (like some of the systems in the CIRCA labs), you might want to disable the automatic loading of images in order to speed up scrolling of the page. To do this, choose Auto Load Images from the Options pull-down menu in Netscape's Navigator. This will remove the check mark from that item and the Navigator will not load any more new images until it is enabled again.

If you have any comments or questions regarding this document as it pertains to a course of study at UF, please contact your instructor. If you have any other comments, you may direct them via e-mail to the Author at: caron@gnv.fdt.net.

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