>Ok...Now that I've gotten PPP up successfully, of course I have more
>questions ;-)
>
>1)Where can I find the Pine emailer???
>

as someone mentioned already, you can find the binaries on the macbsd ftp
site, or if they don't work, you can get the source code from
ftp.cac.washington.edu. i did the latter of the two, and the software
compiled nicely with no errors or anything.

>2)How do I make it so a user could just type irc(just an example) and ircii
>would launch???
>

easily.
get the IRC binaries from the macbsd.com site (if they are there) or get
the source code from ftp://ftp.undernet.org/pub/clients/unix/ .
since this is not a netbsd program (i.e. not made by netbsd), you might
want to make a /usr/local/bin/ directory, for all "foreign" programs. just
for organization, i guess.
if you use csh or tcsh for a shell (which you probably don't have unless
you installed them specifically), just move the binaries to /usr/local/bin/
and add "set path=(/usr/local/bin/ $path)" at the end of the global cshrc
file (/etc/csh.cshrc).
For bash and sh, consult other sources, or look around in your /etc
directory or root's homedirectory for how the "/bin", "/usr/sbin", "/sbin",
etc... are already added, and you can add /usr/local/bin/
In either case, you probably want to "chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/irc" as
root, to let other users on your system use the IRC program. this mode may
come default - i don't know for sure - it doesn't do any harm anyway.
As for making different names for the same program, you create and alias.
use "man ln" for more details. it's pretty much self-explanatory.
the latter was a question a general unix book could probably answer, you
might want to check one out of your local library if you have any similar
questions.
later,
  - a