At password prompt, enter password At term prompt, if offered, type ansi, vt100, or ibmpc. The pine program will begin a new message and prompt for a subject. After the message is typed in, a control-X will finalize the message and send it. The pine program will prompt for the subject. Continue to type in the message, and complete with a control-X to send.
Help is available on-line while in Pine.
There is a Help category in the main menu for an overall review. Here you will find anything needed to begin using Pine. Since Pine will handle binary attachments, it is important to know how to move binary attachments between machines. Login is just as with the telnet program. The commands of FTP can be seen at any time by entering a question mark at the FTP prompt.