This page describes a number of applications and tools that are available on most centrally managed host computers. Electronic Mail Pine Pine is now the primary Information Services' recommended unix based mail interface. It alows you to send and receive e-mail messages to or from users anywhere on the Internet. The current version of Pine, which is mounted on all Information Services multi-user unix hosts, is 3.95q.
Documentation is available from the normal sources.
The most common client program in use at the University is Simeon. A copy of this is freely available from the Computer Centre Help Desk for Windows based PC' s and for X Windows Unix systems. This daemon allows the serving of WWW documents from the host on which it is running. This allows direct interactive communication between users on Unix systems that support the relevant daemon. This allows communication with a wider range of systems.