1. Once logged onto CCN, go to your home files directory by hitting G FILES 2. Upload the file from your computer to your CCN account. This is a two step process: a. Tell CCN you are about to upload a file by hitting U for upload. You will be prompted for the transfer protocol. If at all possible, use Z-Modem. Z-Modem is faster, more reliable, and retains your proper file names when uploading and downloading. After selecting your file transfer protocol, you are then prompted for a filename. This is the name the file will be given in your CCN account. Note that if you transfer with Z-Modem, this name isn't kept, the file name from your Hard Disk is retained. b. After telling CCN to 'receive' the file, you must now tell your communications software on your computer to 'send' the file. You will have to check your manual or help files to do this. 3. Once you've uploaded your file to your CCN account, you must attach it to your E-Mail. Go to PINE by hitting G MAIL 4. Compose your E-Mail. Go to the header and bring your cursor to the Attachmnt: line. You can either type in the file name (the name in your CCN account) or you can hit -T to go to your file directory to select the file. You have to be in the Attachmnt: line or -T will invoke the spell checker. When you send your file, the attached file goes with it. Now as straight forward as that sounds, it may or may not be easy for the other end. Sometimes the attached file arrives and is identified as a separate attached file. Sometimes it gets 'uuencoded' or 'binhexed' and embedded in the actual E-Mail. It all depends on the route the E-Mail packets take and the E-Mail server software at the other end. It may take some minor effort at the receiving end to get the file out. Usually once you do this once, it's easy to do again. After your E-Mail is received, don't forget to go back to your CCN file account and delete the file as it counts against your quota. I usually keep the uploaded file in my CCN account until I'm sure it has been received.