Date: Thu, 26 Oct 89 09:58:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Site.Administrator Subject: Welcome to Andrew To: New Andrew Users X-Andrew-ScribeFormat: 12 Content-Type: X-BE2; 12 If-Type-Unsupported: send \begindata{text,538387112} \textdsversion{12} \template{default} \define{global } \center{\bold{\bigger{\italic{Welcome to the Andrew Message System} from Carnegie Mellon University and IBM. }}\ \begindata{fad,538398720} $N icon12 $C 30 $T 0 $L andy25 $P 0,0,420,128 $F $V 113,32 137,103 $V 113,32 182,11 $V 182,11 207,83 $V 207,83 137,103 $S 145,49 Carnegie $S 147,74 Mellon $V 176,213 176,213 $V 291,207 291,207 $V 212,222 212,222 $V 84,214 84,214 $V 142,161 142,161 $V 231,207 231,207 $V -1,-1 -1,-1 $V 113,270 113,270 $V 256,279 256,279 $V 202,316 202,316 $A 21,110 -1,76 $F $V 113,32 137,103 $V 113,32 182,11 $V 182,11 207,83 $V 207,83 137,103 $S 16,23 Carnegie $S 341,26 Mellon $V 176,213 176,213 $V 291,207 291,207 $V 212,222 212,222 $V 84,214 84,214 $V 142,161 142,161 $V 231,207 231,207 $V -1,-1 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\view{rasterview,538226816,1,0,0} } As you can doubtless already tell, this is a \italic{multi-media} message system. The meaning of the term "multi-media" varies from one system to another. On Andrew, the term is used very broadly; the Andrew ATK ("Andrew ToolKit") datastream is extensible to permit virtually anything that can be digitized to be put in files or sent through the mail. For example, the Carnegie Mellon logo above is actually not just a picture, but an \italic{animation}; if you click on the center of the round ITC logo in the lower-left corner of the picture, you can see the animation in action. In addition to handling multi-media objects, the Andrew Message System has been designed to be unusually general and powerful in several other ways. It can be used for many purposes, including: \leftindent{\bold{electronic mail public bulletin boards shared mailboxes private bulletin boards a variety of other information sources} } It can also be used with a wide variety of user interface programs running on a wide variety of machines (generally talking to a somewhat smaller set of servers), including: \leftindent{\bold{High-function workstations (IBM RT's, Sun workstations, DEC MicroVaxes) IBM PC's and clones Apple Macintoshes } \bold{Various mainframe systems, including VAXes running both UNIX and VMS.}} For various reasons, both technical and otherwise, not all of these features are distributed with all releases of the Andrew Message System. If your version of the system lacks features you need, those features may well be available to you via another release mechanism. The current release, however, includes many features absent from some previous distributions. Among these features are \leftindent{\bold{Use from remote machines (e.g. PC's) The White Pages user name database (including phonetic matching of mis-typed user names) The Andrew Message Delivery System (useful for delivery of mail across networked filesystems) The FLAMES programming language (allowing automatic classification of incoming mail messages) }} Information about Andrew programs and common tasks is available from the Andrew Help system. To start exploring how to use the message system, type \bold{help mail} in the Typescript window (or at whatever command prompt you normally use). If you are interested in topics relating to the Andrew system, and you have access to the Internet, you may want to subscribe to the Internet mailing list "Info-Andrew". To be added to this list, send mail to "info-andrew-request@andrew.cmu.edu". \italic{When you ask to be added to the list, \bold{please} specify whether or not you want to receive the messages in multi-media format.} In general, it is OK to send multi-media mail to this mailing list, as such mail will be automatically unformatted before being re-sent to the recipients who can not read multi-media mail. The Info-Andrew mailing list is also available (in text-only form) as the USENET newsgroup, "comp.soft-sys.andrew". An entire folder full of demonstration messages from one of the CMU bboards is available for you to read right now, if you wish. These messages explain much more about the use of the Andrew Message System, and show off many of its more advanced features. To see these messages, either type ^X^V, or select "Read by Name" from the Message Folders menu, and then type in the full path name: \typewriter{\leftindent{ANDREWDIR/.MESSAGES/demo}} (where ANDREWDIR denotes the location in your filesystem where Andrew has been installed). Alternatively, you may wish to create an Andrew Message System demo folder in your personal folder tree. The "gendemo" program can accomplish this automatically. Simply type \bold{help gendemo} in the Typescript window (or other command prompt). 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