Re: SMail and biff

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From: David J. MacKenzie
Date: Wed, 22 May 1991 17:24

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You are confusing xbiff with biff.  xbiff and biff are completely
different programs that work completely differently.  xbiff
periodically stats the mailbox; biff (actually the comsat daemon does
all the work; biff just chmods your tty) waits for messages on a
socket saying that a user has new mail.

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David J. MacKenzie <djm@eng.umd.edu> <djm@ai.mit.edu>

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From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
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Subject: Re: SMail and biff
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