1) Forwarding e-mail:
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As an OSU student you have an OSU e-mail address, probably of the form
   firstname.lastname@okstate.edu

You also have an e-mail address on the CSX computer system of the form
   yourUserid@cs.okstate.edu

You probably have not been using the latter address, and in fact likely 
didn't even know it existed.  You may have been reading e-mail at your 
OSU address, or perhaps you usually receive and read e-mail mainly at 
an account on yahoo.com, hotmail.com, gmail.com, cox.net, or some 
other commercial Internet service provider (ISP).

We, the CS 1113 instructors, sometimes send e-mail to CS 1113 students 
at their OSU e-mail addresses.  In some cases we find that the students 
never read those messages.

You might find it convenient to have all of your e-mail go to one address.  
This is easy to do, and can always be changed later if you change your mind.
We suggest that you at least forward your CSX e-mail to your OSU account 
or to some other account that you read regularly.  To do this, log in to 
your CSX account and then type
   echo 'forwarding_address' > .forward

where   forwarding_address   is the e-mail address to which you want your 
CSX e-mail to be forwarded.The above command creates a new file named
   .forward

containing only the string
   forwarding_address

For example, to forward e-mail from CSX to your OSU account, if your OSU 
e-mail address is
   mary.smith@okstate.edu

you would type
   echo 'mary.smith@okstate.edu' > .forward

Similarly, if you want your CSX e-mail to be forwarded to the address
   mary_smith86@hotmail.com

you would type
   echo 'mary_smith86@hotmail.com' > .forward

If you would like to forward your CSX e-mail to some other e-mail address, 
please do so now using the above "echo" command.  After you have entered 
this command, please check the .forward file using the Unix command
   more .forward

If you ever want to change this forwarding address, just use the vi editor 
to change the address in the .forward file.  If you ever want to stop 
forwarding e-mail from CSX, just delete the .forward file using
   rm .forward

If you rarely read the e-mail at your OSU account, you might want to forward 
that e-mail to some other account.  To do that, go to okey.okstate.edu in a 
browser such as Microsoft Internet Explorer, and set an e-mail destination in 
your O-Key account.

We suggest that you do one or both of the above two things now, so that we will 
be able to reach you with e-mail in the future if necessary, but we do not 
insist that you do these things.  It is up to you.

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2) Changing your CSX password:
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If you would like to change your CSX password to something that is easier to 
remember and type than the default password that was assigned to you, you can 
do that by typing
   passwd

when logged in to your CSX account, and then following the instructions that 
will be given to you.

You are not required to change your CSX password; it is up to you.

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