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HP NetMail/3000 User Manual

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  • Page 1 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Menu Interface...
  • Page 2 What You Need to Know About Sending Electronic Mail For mail users, NetMail/3000 tries to provide a user interface for the computer novice, as well as shortcuts for the computer pro. Most commands are available via the terminal function keys on HP terminals as well as being enterable (with appropriate shortcuts) from the keyboard.
  • Page 3 To provide the maximum flexibility in both business and personal use, electronic mail sys- tems (in particular the standard which NetMail/3000 adheres to) enforce a standard set of head- ings on all messages. These headings are part of the actual message (in fact, they are always at the beginning of the message) as opposed to the envelope information.
  • Page 4 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface When you run NetMail/3000, you will be presented with a list of all the mail in your “mailbox”. The following sample screen illustrates what you might see on a typical mail display: The following items outline the important points on the mail screen. The arrows on the display outline the areas you should take note of: Take note of the name displayed here on your screen.
  • Page 5 New (unread) message indicator column. In this column you will see “NEW” in front of messages which have not yet been read. Note that on HP terminals, “URGENT” unread messages will blink. This arrow indicates the column where the date and time that the message was delivered into your mailbox is displayed.
  • Page 6 Internet. Not to be alarmed, to communicate with users in your own organization, you need only know their mail name (NetMail/3000 automatically figures out what machine the user is on). Users Guide...
  • Page 7 :RUN NETMAIL.SYS.THREEK If you see a “[NetMail/INBOX]” when you start up NetMail/3000, then you are in “command mode.” To change your display to “menu mode” (this manual deals with the menu mode interface) enter the command “SET MODE=MENU” and hit return (leave off the quotes).

  • Page 8: Basic Operations

    Users Guide Basic Operations Whenever you run NetMail/3000 in menu mode, you will see the menu bar painted across the top of the screen, and a message display area below where messages in the current folder are listed. For those of you used to standard applications on HP3000s, you need to be aware that Net- Mail/3000 actually lets you use the terminal’s arrow keys (up, down, left, right) - you may not be...
  • Page 9 On PCs you typically use the “ALT” key to toggle between the menu bar and the application window; since we don’t have “ALT” keys on HP terminals (and on PCs running emu- lation packages we still don’t have access to it from the HP3000) we use a function key to simu- late it.

  • Page 10: Cursor Keys

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Cursor Keys In the message display area, you use the arrow keys (up/down) to point to the message you want to “operate” on (read, delete, whatever). You can also jump a page at a time with the “page down”...

  • Page 11: Function Keys

    (a powerfail perhaps). It will re-paint the current screen for you. NetMail/3000 allows you to perform operations on groups of messages at a time. Many of the menu options will operate on the current (highlighted) message, all messages in your current folder, sometimes on all new messages, and also on all “tagged”...

  • Page 12: Message Options

    This is a pull-down menu (when you get to it, use the down arrow or RETURN key to view the menu). Under this selection are the NetMail/3000 commands relating to sending and processing messages in your current folder. Options to send, delete, file, etc., are all under this selection, and you use the up and down arrows to select one of the options (or you can jump to a selection by entering the underlined letter in the command you want.
  • Page 13 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Compose/Send Message The first selection under message options is “Compose/send”. This is the selection you use to actually compose and/or send a message. Notice that the “fast select” character for this option is “C” (the underlined character in the selection). This means you can merely type a “C” when the menu is pulled down to invoke this option.
  • Page 14 “sent” to your recipients. The “On” field allows you to specify whether this file resides on the HP3000 or on your PC (or Macintosh). Only users running terminal emulators will be allowed to change this field - for HP terminal users, the field will be set to “HP” and will be skipped over entirely.
  • Page 15 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface If you specified “8BIT” as the “Type”, you must now select an “ default encoding for “8BIT” messages is the MIME standard “Quoted Printable” encoding. The technical description of how this works is involved, but basically you only need to remember that you will normally choose “Quoted Printable”...

  • Page 16: Delivery Receipt

    “On” field specifies “PC” then you may enter a fully qualified path and filename for the file to be retrieved off your PC (or Macintosh). PC files (as HP files) MUST be ascii text files (WordPer- fect or other graphical or native word processing documents are not valid as the body of a message - if you want to send a file created in a word processor as a message, keep it in ASCII/plain text format).
  • Page 17 The next field on the screen is the “ ing anything in the box) to tell NetMail/3000 that you are going to want to attach some file(s) to your message (any file other than the main part of your message). For instance, you can send a message describing your new sales-projection spreadsheet, and actually attach the spreadsheet to your message.
  • Page 18 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide If you selected USTEXT then you’re done here, and you will proceed too either compose your message or attach files. If not, you will now have the following choice: 2-18...
  • Page 19 HP3000 or on your PC (or Macintosh). Only users running terminal emulators will be allowed to change this field - for HP terminal users, the field will be set to “HP” and will be skipped over entirely.
  • Page 20 (the “ allows NetMail/3000 to decide how the file should be “encoded” (and if it in fact needs to be encoded) for transport to its destination. Pick an appropriate description for the type of file you...
  • Page 21 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface This field describes how the attachments you just specified will be “encoded” to meet the e-mail standard requirements (non text messages must be encoded somehow to be transported Encoding over a network). “ types you should pick one of the following unless you know that the receiving system must have (or only understands) specific encoding types;...
  • Page 22 ” selections are only relevant if you are attaching an HP3000 (non text) file. For any other file type, use the default of “None”. For HP3000 files, NetMail/3000 must add special “characteristics” of the file - information that is unique to HP3000s - but must be pre- served to transport (and reconstruct) the attachment on another system.
  • Page 23 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide selecting the “DONE” field. Once you are done specifying file attachments, you then proceed to the prompt for mes- sage recipients. 2-23...
  • Page 24 Note that if you enter ‘//’ before entering any recipients, or hit <RETURN> through all the prompts without providing any recipients, NetMail/3000 will ask you to confirm that it is OK to ‘forget’ this message (not send it to anyone) and return to the prompt. If you do not choose to do this, it will go back and prompt you for recipients again.
  • Page 25 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Help Finding Mail Names At any To:, Cc:, or Bcc: prompt you may enter a question mark or use the function key labelled “Search for Name” (f2), and you will be prompted for a search criteria and will be pro- vided a list of mailbox names (and potentially mailing list names).
  • Page 26 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface look something like this: You can then choose from the names listed in the selection window. Use your arrow keys to move up or down the display til you have the choice you want highlighted, then hit “RETURN”...

  • Page 27: Delete Message

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface At some point, after reading mail in your mailbox, you’ll need to delete old messages. While you are free to keep important messages for any amount of time (even after you have read them), because there is limited space in the mail database and all users share this database for mail storage, you will need to delete old messages at some point.
  • Page 28 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide a file or “SAVE Attachment” to save selected parts of messages. After copying them to file(s), you can then delete the message(s) from your mailbox (and thus free up space for new messages) while still keeping a copy of important messages on the system. For those messages which you desire to keep for future reference, filing the message in another folder may make your mailbox easier to manage.
  • Page 29 “filing” the messages into separate folders, you would no longer have all those messages to scroll through each time you run NetMail/3000. Instead, you would see the new messages and those messages which you have not yet filed anywhere. Then, to review or work...

  • Page 30: Forward Message

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface You may send on an exact copy of a message in your mailbox to someone else with the “FORWARD” command. Forwarding a message makes a copy of a message you have received in your mailbox and sends that copy on to another person (or people) you specify. You can forward a specific message to as many people as you like.
  • Page 31 The next field on the screen is the “ ing anything in the box) to tell NetMail/3000 that you are going to want to attach some file(s) to your message (any file other than the main part of your message). For instance, you can send a message describing your new sales-projection spreadsheet, and actually attach the spreadsheet to your message.
  • Page 32 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface If you specified that you wanted to attach files, you will get the “attach file” box where you can specify the file(s) you want to attach. See the discussion of the “Compose/Send” com- mand for details on the file attachment process.

  • Page 33: Print Message

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface To actually print a copy of any message(s) in your mailbox, use the “PRINT” command. This will print a copy of the message(s) that you specify on the printer that is designated for you (see the SET PRINTER command). Only the text portion of messages are printed (i.e. not non- text attachments).

  • Page 34: Read Message

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface There are two means of reading messages listed on the current display. The first and sim- plest, is to simply highlight it (using the arrow keys) and hit “RETURN”. This will display the contents of the current message for you, after which you will be returned to the message list. The other way to read a message (or several at a time) is to activate the menu bar, pull down the mes- sage menu, and select the “READ”...
  • Page 35 Q) key sequence. In addition, you may end the listing of a mail message by hitting the “CNTL Y” (control Y) key sequence. You may also have NetMail/3000 pause after displaying each “screen” full of text when- ever you read mail by setting the “PAUSE” option (see “SET PAUSE” under the Display menu, described later in the manual).

  • Page 36: Reply To Message

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface It is common in electronic communications to receive a message from someone which you wish to respond to. This might be a message from an individual discussing a particular topic, or a message from a mailing list or discussion group to which you would like to respond or add some comments.
  • Page 37 NetMail/3000 automatically inserts the message subject for you (which is whatever the original subject was with an “Re: ” inserted in front of it). This is another Internet mail standard which makes conversations easier to follow.
  • Page 38 After completing this form, you are placed at the same “To:” prompt as when you nor- mally send a message, except you will notice that NetMail/3000 already provided one recipient for you, NetMail/3000 automatically determines the “address” to reply to based on Internet rules...
  • Page 39 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Write to File Write to file To save a copy of a message as a permanent disc file you may use the ‘ ’ command. This command makes a copy of the mail message and writes it to a disc file that will be created for you.
  • Page 40 You now need to select where the message(s) you are writing will be written to. You first need to specify if the file will be “ if you’re using an HP terminal, you won’t need to select HP or PC and the field will be set to “HP” automatically and the field will be skipped over.
  • Page 41 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface You can extract and save a file that is attached to a mail message with the “ Attachment ” command. As you read a message, you will see special blocks denoting that there is an “attached” file at that point in the message. Attachments are listed with the “name” of the attached file (if available) and each attachment is numbered.
  • Page 42 PC or Macintosh. In the “ want the attachment saved to (if you are only on an HP terminal, you won’t have an option here and the cursor skips over the field entirely, leaving you at the filename field).
  • Page 43 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide will then be prompted with one more selection: Type Select “Binary” or “Ascii” for the file “ ”, as appropriate for the attachment you selected. Ascii should be used only for plain text attachments, while “Binary” should be used for all other types of file attachments.

  • Page 44: Option Selections

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Option Selections The Options menu selection groups mail configuration and other commands. By selecting and “pulling down” this menu (use the left or right arrow keys to highlight the “Options” item then use the down arrow or “RETURN” key to view the menu). Included in this group of com- mands are selections to specify the “signature file”...
  • Page 45 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface NetMail allows each user to create what Internet mailers refer to as “signature” files. This is a file containing the user’s name, e-mail address, and optionally company name, telephone number, or any other information relevant to people whom you might send electronic mail to.
  • Page 46 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface worldwide. Signature files must be created (with your favorite file editor) and kept in a group that you will have read access to when you run NetMail. Files can be as long as you like (though very long signature files tend to annoy mail users and eat up network bandwidth) and should be ascii files with a record size up to 80 bytes per record.
  • Page 47 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Verify Delete You may select whether you want to be prompted for verification when you delete a mail VERIFYDELETE message by setting the “ ” ON. If ON, then whenever you delete a message you will be prompted to verify that you really want to delete that message. If OFF, then deletes occur automatically when you specify and there is no further prompting.

  • Page 48: (Set) Printer

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Whenever you choose to print a message on a printer, NetMail/3000 automatically sends the message to the printer which has been designated as the output device for your mail user. You will see the current setting of your print device by selecting “...
  • Page 49 Notify users via :TELL messages if they are not in “QUIET” mode, other- wise send a special non-destructive message overlay onto the function-key labels of their HP terminal Notify users via :TELL messages if not “QUIET”, send interruptive mes- Users Guide (Set) Notification ”...
  • Page 50 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface sages only for URGENT mail (no message if “QUIET” and not URGENT) Always use interruptive mail notification (URGENT or normal) Notify users with interruptive message for URGENT mail, no notification for normal priority mail messages 2-50 Users Guide...
  • Page 51 By default, NetEDIT is established as the editor for message composition (unless changed by the mail administrator). Also, EDITOR (HP’s EDITOR.PUB.SYS program) is available to all users as an available file editor for message composition (though this can also be changed by the administrator).
  • Page 52 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface (Set) Auto Spell Checking You may select whether you want to be prompted for spell checking when you send a mes- AUTOSPELL sage by using the “ your system has a spelling checker available and it has been set up by your mail system adminis- trator, in fact, you won’t even be able to select it if you do not have a spelling checker installed...

  • Page 53: Set Password

    ” selection under the Options menu. Once a password is set, any attempt to gain access to your mailbox (when NetMail/3000 is run) will result in the user being prompted to enter the appropriate password. If the correct password is not supplied, access to the mail system will not be granted.

  • Page 54: Set Language

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide (Set) Language Each user can select their own language of choice for their user interface by choosing the LANGUAGE “ ” option. If there are other language catalogs available on your system (you will be presented a list of the available languages when you select the “LANGUAGE” selection) you can select any language catalog you wish.
  • Page 55 If you have been “allowed” by the mail administrator, you can disable the automatic read receipt function of NetMail/3000. Normally, when you read a message that has been sent with a “read receipt” requested, the mail system automatically generates the return message confirming that you have read the specified message.
  • Page 56 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Mailbox Names You can search for mailbox names (without having to actually compose or send a mes- sage) with the “MAILBOX NAMES” choice under the Options menu. 2-56...
  • Page 57 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Spellcheck a File If you have a spelling checker installed on your system and enabled in NetMail/3000, you SPELLCHK A FILE can spell-check any file by using the “ ” command. You provide a filename to spell check, and the spelling checker on your system will be invoked to process that file.

  • Page 58: Display Selections

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Display Selections Under the Display menu choice you will find options which control various aspects of how messages (and the list of messages) are displayed for you. Below, we’ll describe each selec- tion. 2-58...
  • Page 59 PAUSE Display “ ” determines whether NetMail/3000 will automatically pause the dis- play when reading mail messages at 23 line intervals. The pause (if set) will stop the output of a message being read every 23 lines and prompt you to stop the display, display one more line, one more page, or the rest of the message without further interruptions.
  • Page 60 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface By default all mail messages are listed with many lines of “header” information. These include the standard headers such as “From”, “To”, “Date”, “Subject”, and “Cc”, as well as poten- tially many others. While all these header lines are necessary to conform to the Internet mail stan- dard under which we operate, it is not necessarily useful to casual readers, and for this reason the listing of all these “special”...
  • Page 61 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface AUTO MM The ” messages. See the discussion of multimedia enhancements at the end of this chapter for details, but you can designate whether multimedia attachments which your PC can handle are automati- cally downloaded and launched when you read the message they are “attached” to with the setting of this command.
  • Page 62 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface The listing setting determines what (if any) messages in the current folder are automati- cally displayed in the message window. It can be set such that all messages in the current folder are listed, or that only unread messages are listed.

  • Page 63: (Set) Interface

    Mail/3000 Command Line Interface Users Manual”. Once you change the interface to the command line mode, it will remain that way (even if you exit and run NetMail/3000 again) until you change the interface option back to menu mode (at the NetMail/INBOX prompt in command line mode enter “SET MODE=MENU”).
  • Page 64 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide (Set) MIME By default, NetMail/3000 understands the MIME standard for encoding message attach- MIME ments. The “ ” Display option, however, allows the user to disable MIME encoding (when reading messages) temporarily. This option is for debugging and its use is discouraged, but it can allow a malformed MIME message (possibly from a broken MIME mailer somewhere) to be viewed in raw form.
  • Page 65 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide (Set) Uuencode By default, NetMail/3000 understands UUENCODED message attachments. The UUENCODE “ ” Display option, however, allows the user to disable the interpretation of UUENCODED message attachments (when reading messages) temporarily. This option is for debugging and its use is discouraged, but it can allow a malformed attachment (possibly from a broken mailer somewhere) to be viewed in raw form.
  • Page 66 (Set) Binhex BIN- By default, NetMail/3000 understands BINHEX message attachments. The “ ” Display option, however, allows the user to disable the interpretation of BINHEX mes- sage attachments (when reading messages) temporarily. This option is for debugging and its use is discouraged, but it can allow a malformed attachment (possibly from a broken mailer somewhere) to be viewed in raw form.
  • Page 67 Once you start accumulating large numbers of messages in your mailbox, you may find it useful (or even necessary) to start organizing them into groups. NetMail/3000 provides “folders” for this purpose. Folders hold messages in your mailbox and organize them into logical groups.
  • Page 68 The “current” folder is the one from which you are viewing messages - if you have not changed it, every time you start up NetMail/3000 you begin in the “INBOX” folder. You may switch to any folder you have created or the default folder “INBOX”. The folder name is dis- played in the status area below the message list on your screen.

  • Page 69: Create Folder

    NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Create (Folder) You can create a new mail folder with the “CREATE” command. Mail folders can be any string of continuous characters (up to 16 characters long) including any printable special charac- ters, all of which are automatically upshifted. You will be prompted to supply a name and a description for the folder (which will be available whenever you “GOTO”...
  • Page 70 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface You can destroy (delete) an empty mail folder with the “DESTROY” command. If you have mail folders which you no longer need, you can delete them with the “DESTROY” com- mand. The folder must exist and must be empty -- it cannot have any messages filed in it or it will not be deleted.
  • Page 71 (mistyped addresses) or redundant lookups. In NetMail/3000, there are several types of mailing lists. Individuals can create and main- tain their own private mailing lists, and the mail administrator can set up public mailing lists (which anyone can subscribe to) as well as system-owned lists which anyone can reference but only the mail administrator can modify.
  • Page 72 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface You may have noticed that some electronic mail addresses can be long and difficult to remember. To help you in remembering these names, you can create “mailing lists” which contain one or more full electronic addresses, all conveniently referenced by a “list name” which you define.
  • Page 73 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide ence the list by using it when sending a message. You can view the entries you have entered on a list at any time with the “EXPAND” com- mand, and can add or remove entries from a list with the “EDIT” mailing list command.
  • Page 74 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface You get rid of private mailing lists with the “ select the “REMOVE” mailing list command, you will be provided with a list of all your private mailing lists, and you can then select the list that you want to delete (use the arrow keys til you have the proper entry highlighted).
  • Page 75 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface When you need to add addresses to a private mailing list, remove names from a list, or modify names on a mailing list, use the “ command, you will be presented with a list of all the mailing lists you own and you can then select one of the mailing lists to work on (using the arrow keys until the list you want is highlighted).
  • Page 76 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface doesn’t have any entries in it yet. As you see above, you are prompted to enter a mailing list address to be added to the list. The address can be long, thus the field is four lines long. After the e-mail address, you can enter the “real name”...
  • Page 77 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface You now get a list of the names and addresses already on the list, and can select one of the entries to change (by using the arrow keys to move the current record pointer until that entry is highlighted), you can delete the entry you have highlighted (by hitting the “Delete Entry”...
  • Page 78 This is useful for common interest groups or work groups, as those interested can join and remove themselves as required and all participants can easily communicate with each other. To un-join a public NetMail/3000 mailing list you are subscribed to use the “UNSUBSCRIBE” command.
  • Page 79 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Unsubscribe (Mailing List) UNSUB- To remove yourself from a public mailing list you are subscribed to use the “ SCRIBE ” mailing list command. When you select the Unsubscribe command, you will be presented with a list of all the public mailing lists which you belong to - simply select the one you want to unsubscribe from by using the arrow keys then hit ‘RETURN”...
  • Page 80 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface You may view the members of any public or system mailing list, or a list which you own EXPAND with the “ ” command under the Mailing List options. When you select the Expand command, you will see a window like the following listing all the public, private, and system...
  • Page 81 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide lists, and then hit the “Cancel” (f8) key to return to the menu. In this example, we selected the mailing list called “FRIENDS” to expand. You then see the window overlay pop-up that lists the three members of the mailing list. If there were more entries, you could scroll up and down the list (with the arrow or page-up/page-down keys) to view all the entries on the list.
  • Page 82 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Show All (Mailing Lists) You can display all the available mailing lists (all those lists that you could use as recipi- Show All ents for a message) with the “ ” mailing list command. This will present you with a...
  • Page 83 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface An important feature of NetMail/3000’s pc-style menu interface is the on-line help sub- system. You can browse through the help contents by selecting the “ will present you with the main help window, allowing you to jump to other topic areas of interest.
  • Page 84 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide program where you left off. You can select the “Index” key at any point to return to the main help index window. 2-84...
  • Page 85 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide Exit Exit By selecting the “ ” menu option, you will end the program, returning you to the MPE prompt (or menu system - or whatever you were in before running NetMail/3000). 2-85...
  • Page 86 12)// 13)!EOJ Note the blank lines - NetMail/3000 treats a blank line as if the user hit the RETURN key without entering any information. It is important to remember when sending mail from a batch job that NetMail will need to recognize the batch job’s logon and associate it with a valid mailbox (so any recipient of a batch-...
  • Page 87 Line 3 is where NetMail/3000 prompts for the name of the file to send. You could just as easily have provided a filename here that already existed and have that sent as a message (it must be ascii text though).
  • Page 88 (It corresponds to the “CANCEL MESSAGE” function By implementing NetMail/3000 JCL in a job stream, a message can easily be generated when a program successfully completes, or aborts, or any other special criteria verifiable from a batch job.
  • Page 89 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface NetMail/3000 can be invoked as a son process to send electronic messages or files under programmatic control. The rules are similar to those used for batch processes - invoke the pro- gram NETMAIL.SYS.THREEK (with an appropriate INFO= parameter if necessary) and supply it the input fields it will need when processing the commands.
  • Page 90 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface NetMail/3000 adds some exciting new multimedia features for users of Reflection for Windows. Using the MIME standard for encapsulating non-text message parts, NetMail users can not only send multimedia messages, but can even have their contents displayed or invoked auto- matically when the message is read.
  • Page 91 Windows Paintbrush to view ‘.bmp’ files; Windows Write to view ‘.wri’ files; Notepad to view ‘.txt’ files; etc.). In addition, NetMail/3000 automatically detects any applications you have associated with file types in Windows and will allow you to pro- cess message parts of those types automatically.
  • Page 92 “variable” to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file, somewhere before the line that invokes MS Windows (if you run Windows from your AUTOEXEC.BAT -- if not, then anywhere in the file will do). To install NetMail/3000’s multimedia software on your PC, add the following line to your AUTOEXEC.BAT :...

  • Page 93: Multimedia Operation

    PC is capable of displaying) NetMail/3000 will automatically extract the segment from the message and transmit it to your PC. Once there, NetMail/3000 software on your PC looks up the application that handles that type of file and launches the application for you, with the multimedia segment already loaded.
  • Page 94 If you send a .WAV file but the file is named soundz.jnk (not .WAV), NetMail/3000 will not be able to identify and classify it, and it will not be processable. See the section on attaching files for details on how to attach PC files to messages.
  • Page 95 SIONS] section, there are often other applications which you might want to identify and allow NetMail/3000 to pass files to. To add a new application and file type to the control file, simply open the file using a file editor, add the new extension = application line, and keep the file. The next time you start up NetMail/3000, the new application’s data files will be recognized.
  • Page 96 NMLAUNCH.INI file: wav = soundrec.exe This will allow NetMail/3000 to process .WAV files attached to messages and pass them to the PC to be played. Also, if (once you have setup your PC for multimedia operation) you need to run NetMail/ 3000 and want to disable the capability (and initial start-ups) temporarily, you can set the follow- ing job control word before running NetMail;...
  • Page 97 (term- type 10). If you are using some other terminal type but are still using an HP terminal and want to take full advantage of the display enhancements NetMail/3000 uses, issue the following MPE...
  • Page 98 HP3000 and your PC. If you do not take these steps, you will still be able to run NetMail/3000 and have all the capabilities of an HP terminal, but will not have the option of attaching files from your PC or saving them to the PC.
  • Page 99 HP3000 and your PC. If you do not take these steps, you will still be able to run NetMail/3000 and have all the capabilities of an HP terminal, but will not have the option of attaching files from your PC or saving them to the PC.
  • Page 100 Windows or Macintosh will not need to perform any special setup (other than that men- tioned in the multimedia installation section earlier). All capabilities are automatically enabled and all current Business Session software versions are automatically recognized by NetMail/3000 whether using a serial or a network connection.
  • Page 101 (other than that mentioned in the multimedia installation section ear- lier). All capabilities are automatically enabled and all current Reflection software versions are automatically recognized by NetMail/3000 whether using a serial or a network connection. 2-101...
  • Page 102 NetMail/3000 Menu Interface Users Guide 2-102...

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