PMDF User's Guide
OpenVMS Edition

To read a new mail message, invoke PMDF MAIL. You will be prompted for a command. If you have unread messages, their count will be displayed.

$ PMDF MAIL You have 1 new message. EMAIL>

To read the new message, press [RETURN] . The message will be displayed on your screen.

EMAIL> [RETURN] Message NEWMAIL 1 26-JUL-2012 10:50:43 (1) Date: 26 Jul 2012 10:50:31 -0700 (PDT) (2) From: mrochek@example.com To: misha@new.com Subject: Numerical methods for ODEs Misha, There seems to be something wrong with two of the numerical methods coded in DEQSOLVE, or at least they give results that seem wrong. -Mrochek EMAIL>

Press the [RETURN] key to continue reading your new messages. The message

%EMAIL-E-NOMOREMSG, no more messages

will appear when there are no more new messages to read.

In the sample message shown above, note that the date and time that the message was received and stored in your mailbox, (1), will typically differ from the time the message was sent to you, (2), by its author.

If a message is too long to be displayed on one screen, press [RETURN] to display the remaining text of the message. To skip the remaining part of a message and display the next message, enter the NEXT command. Other useful commands are

BACK	Display the previous message
NEXT	Display the next message
FIRST	Display the first message
LAST	Display the last message
BACK/PAGE	Display the previous page
NEXT/PAGE	Display the next page
FIRST/PAGE	Display the first page
LAST/PAGE	Display the last page

To read a new mail message received while you are in PMDF MAIL, use the READ/NEW command.