On most machines in the department, this is probably the default starting point for Netscape or Lynx. There's currently more than 8,000 newsgroups worldwide. There's a number of ways of accessing these newsgroups. Check my WWW page for a tutorial on using trn. There's some magic to using trn efficiently so feel free to ask.
Tin is very easy to use - just press the cursor keys to navigate.
There's always a menu of commands at the bottom of each screen listing the available options. As well, it is possible to set up Pine to read the network news as well as email messages. If you'd like to use it in this way, stop by my office for a moment - I'll need to change a few of your startup files to allow you to do this. Transferring Files To and From Pc's and Mac's For PC's running Windows, the easiest program to use to transfer files to and from a UNIX machine is Rapid Filer . Two windows will appear, one the DOS file system and the other the unix filesystem.