Summer, 1993 The Computing Center University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon 97403 Vol. 8 #7 Bye Bye BITNET. at Are Students' Yes, the UO's connection to the BITNET network really is coming t o EGON/DARKWING an end this month. Most campus users are unlikely to notice any substantial changes, since the UO's Internet connection is still in place . count Options? BITNET's demise does have some impact, however. Notable changes are described below: Because there is some confusion among U O instructors as to the availability of student clas s Mail Addressing : Mail to and from BITNET sites will be routed via th e accounts, we'd like to take this opportunity t o Internet, through a BITNET gateway . You should continue to addres s clarify the Computing Center's account options for outgoing mail to BITNET sites in the format [email protected]. Then, be students. There are two basic types of computing sure to notify your BITNET correspondents that they'll need to address e - accounts available to students on OREGON and mail to you in the full Internet address format, [email protected]. DARKWING, the UO' s timesharing computers : The old incoming BITNET address formats, [email protected] and • Class Accounts, for students to complet user@oregon, will no longer get mail to you. e assignments in particular undergraduate and graduate courses Listserv Lists: If you're a VAXcluster user who subscribes to listserv mailing lists, you'll find that your e-mail address on the lists has already • ResearchAccounts, for graduate student research been changed to the Internet format. You can sign up for new lists or Class Accounts are separate from any othe r modify existing subscriptions by sending e-mail to the appropriat e accounts a student may have on OREGON or the listserv address . Note that you can no longer use the old SEN D DARKWING. Class Account usernarnes have the command for this purpose . form "STnnnn," and are valid only for the term i n which the class is offered, making them a poo r SEND and RECEIVE: While they'll still work for communicating wit h choice for e-mail use. Instructors interested in other VAXcluster users, the SEND and RECEIVE commands will n o setting up a Class Account should contact Connie longer function for communication with other sites. During the next si x French, the Computing Center's accounts clerk, at months, local SEND/RECEIVE functions will also be phased out. The 346-1738 (e-mail : connie@oregon) . Network Services staff recommends that you consider using FTP or e- Research Accounts provide graduate student s mail to transfer files, rather than SEND/FILE . with all of the resources available on OREGON and DARKWING, including e-mail. Interested graduate students can run BRUCE, the CC's onlin e account authorization program, to apply for a Student E-Mail Acces s research account. Instructions for using BRUCE are available at no charge in the Documents Room Improves (205). Graduate students may use either thei r Research Account or a CC-EMU mailbox as thei r Beginning Fall Term, all students will be able t o use a new e-mail address (see "Student E-Mail Access microcomputer-based electronic mail system administered from the CC- Improves," in this issue). EMU Microcomputing Lab . Restricted Ac- Restricted Accounts , counts, which provided undergraduate students which provided under - with limited e-mail access on OREGON in the MPP Closes for graduate students wit h past, will be eliminated . access to e-mail in the past, Under the new system, you'll be able to use a Inventory will be eliminated for Fall new e-mail server to send and receive message s The Microcompute r Term, '93. Such accounts for as long as you're enrolled at the UO and have Purchase Plan showroom were not popular due t o a current CC-EMU term pass. Once you've paid (Room 202 Computing their stringent limitations i n your $10 term lab fee, you may apply for an Center) will be closed for computing dollars and CPU online "mailbox" by running BRUCE, an onlin e end-of-year inventory on time. Overcommitment of account authorization program . Wednesday, June 30. OREGON's computing re- With this new e-mail option, you'll be able to Regular hours (Monday sources to research and send and receive e-mail messages-includin g through Friday from 9 am instruction has prompted us mail to remote sites on the Internet-fro m to 5 pm) will resume o n to look at alternative way s Macintoshes in the CC-EMU lab, using a popular Thursday, July 1 . of providing students with point-and-click mail client called Eudora. access to e-mail . ■ - continued on page 2 Summer, 1993 Vol. 8 #7 There are a few limitation to b e aware of when using this new gateway . First, it accommodates only outgoing messages; cc:Mail users may send, but not receive, FAX messages . Second, FAXes are currently restricted to simple text, which means that most cc :Mail attachments cannot be converted to FAX Network Services staff recentl y format . installed an experimental e-mail-to-FA X Support for other file formats , gateway for campus cc :Mail users. If including Postscript, is expected in th e Internet, and offers programs like Telnet, you use cc :Mail, youre welcome to try next release, as is improved support for FTP, and Finger. While LA N FAXing e-mail messages to you r sending FAXes from mail systems other Workplace can run under both DOS and correspondents . than cc:Mail. Windows, Network Services recom- If youd like to try it out, selec t Network Services welcomes feed - mends it primarily for Windows users , "FAX" gateway from the cc :Mail back on this experimental system . Send since it allows them to perform multipl e directory . At the prompt, type th e your comments or questions via e-mail tasks simultaneously. recipients name as youd like it t o to [email protected]. To install the LAN Workplac e appear on the FAX cover page, followed software, youll need to have DOS v. 3.3 by the string "FAX#" and the phon e or higher installed. For Window s number to which the FAX is to be sent : Try LAN applications, youll also nee d name FAX#phone-numbe r Workplace with • Windows v . 3. 1 Since the FAX gateway uses the U O • 4.5 MB RAM phone system, youll need to type in th e Windows • a 4.5 MB disk drive phone number just as you would dial it • an Open Datalink Interfac e from a campus phone . For example, to If you run Windows on your PC, yo u (ODI) driver send a FAX to Network Services, you d now have an opportunity to experimen t type with LAN Workplace, a new network If you run it under DOS alone, youll software package that enables DOS P C Network Services FAX#6-4397 need 512KB RAM and a 3.0 MB disk users to communicate with other com- drive. To send a long-distance FAX, puters on the Internet via TCP/IP . LAN Note that TNVIP users cannot instal l remember to prefix the FAX number Workplace, Version 4 .1, is now avail - LAN Workplace since they depend on with a "9" to access an outside line. able for installation at no charge . It is running a packet driver. Youll also need to add your U O administered on local PCs rather than o n For assistance installing and usin g telephone access code after the phone a network file server. LAN Workplace, call the Network number. Use "ws" to separate these LAN Workplace runs on PC, PS/2, Services Hotline (346-4395) and select three components of the FAX number . and other compatibles connected to the the "network consulting" option . For instance, if you wished to send a FAX to Senator Edward Kennedy, you r address line would look like this : Student E-Mail, continued . Senator Edward Kennedy FAX#9w1 - 202-224-2417w7122356 Eudora is widely used here at th e available through their researc h Computing Center, and is also favore d computing accounts on OREGON o r If you use your telephone access code , by many faculty and administrators . We DARKWING. See the article, "What be sure to check your long distanc e think youll really like this new e-mai l Are Students OREGON/DARKWIN G phone bill carefully to make sure th e system, and hope youll give it a try thi s Account Options?" in this issue for mor e billing is correct . fall. information on graduate studen t Although the new system was set u p accounts. primarily to serve undergraduates, grad- Check the "back-to-school" issue o f uate students may also buy term lab Computing News this fall for updates on passes and obtain mailboxes on the ne w further developments in student e-mail server . Some graduate students may and other improvements in the CC-EM U 2 prefer to use existing mail facilities lab. Summer, 1993 Vol. S #'7 DARK WING User's will retail for $10 a copy in the Documents Room (205) . A copy of this edition will be worth $ 5 Guide Debuts toward the purchase of any later edition of the guide . A new user's guide to DARKWING, the Computin g VAX/VMS User's Guide Update Center's Sun/UNIX timesharin g computer, is scheduled for releas e Coming by the end of June .