Dr. Pekarek retired effective July 1, 2006
As of that date, Dr. James Wilkes is Chair of the Computer Science Department. His home page is http://www.cs.appstate.edu/~jtw/. You can email him at: wilkesjt@appstate.edu
Some important information for students may be distributed as "announcements" visible from the page youge after you "login to AppalNET" -- and not in either hard copy or conventional email. You need to look there for those messages -- you'll probably not get much sympathy if you don't.
There are other interfaces you can use to read the email sent "to AppalNET". I know some faculty (myself included) who use Mozilla's Thunderbird to use that email repository. (I didn't like AppalNET's gripe that Mozilla wasn't a supported browser -- and I still don't.) I know others who use the iPlanet messaging server at http://appmail.appstate.edu/ Note, however, that neither of these shows you those "announcements". There's probably enough information in ACS's FAQ about setting up Outlook to answer the set up questions on one of the other mail user agents.
Some of you run pine or elm on CS to read mail there, but some of you may wish to change where mail addressed
your_login_name@cs.appstate.eduis delivered. You can do that by creating a ".forward" file in your home directory on CS. That file should be an ordinary text (ASCII) file with permissions 600 or 644. The file should contain a single line containing only the address to which you want mail to be redirected. Since that place could also have forwarding set, be careful that the address exists and that forwarding to it doesn't set up a "circular chain" of addresses.
There are many command sequences you could use to set up forwarding. Here is an example of one way for a student whose username is an00678 and who reads mail at his AppalNet account to set up forwarding of his CS mail to his AppalNet account:
1. Login to CS
2. On CS type these commands:
cd
rm -f .forward
echo an00678@appstate.edu > .forward
chmod 600 .forward
3. Logoff from CS
If you have a PC for which any of the following is true:You need to read the reports and you ought to install some patches that they refer to. An easy way to get appropriate Operating System patches is to run Windows Update frequently.
- You run MS Word.
- You have MS Office
- You have Visual Basic or a program that uses it.
- You run Microsoft's Internet Explorer.
- You run Microsoft's Outlook.
- You read email or news with a program that runs on the PC.
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