CS410 - MP0*

The Task

To complete this exercise, you will use your account on mathcssun. You will send an e-mail to your instructor using the following steps (user inputs are in bold):

  1. UNIX(r) System V Release 4.0 (mathcssun)
  2. login: your_userid
  3. Password your_password
  4. Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.5.1 Generic May 1996
  5. $ cat > mymail
  6. Hi, my name is your_name and I love CS410
  7. ^C
  8. $ cat mymail
  9. Hi, my name is Joe Dokes and I love CS410
  10. $ mail pheattch@mathcssun.emporia.edu < mymail
  11. $ exit

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1-3 Use a telnet client and logon on to mathcssun using your user id and password supplied by your instructor.
4 system response to my login
5 After the $ prompt type cat > mymail. This will place your terminal in a mode where all information typted after these commands are placed in a file called mymail.
6 text which will end up in file mymail.
7 press the <cntl> and c keys at the same time. This will return you to command line mode.
8 list whats in the file called mymail
9 contents of file mymail
10 send the file to your instructor as an e-mail
11 exit mathcssun

* MP stands for machine problem.