Controlling Biff

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From: ]none
Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1990 12:54

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Greetings net.friends,
    I would very much like to control the "biff" command.  As i've
seen in the 4.3BSD manual and our on-line Ultrix 3.0 manual, i only
have the option of turning biff on or off.  The control i seek would
ideally allow me to set biff to write to screen as much of the incoming 
message as i would like.  If the ideal isn't possible, then perhaps
someone knows how to get biff to simply beep with either a simple
message saying "you have mail" or no message at all.

Thanks for your attention,
     ______
     \    /  LTD
      \/\/   Internet: schisto@popvax.harvard.edu
      /\/\   Bitnet: schisto@harvsphb.bitnet
     /____\  IP: schisto@128.103.73.1
 Note: these addresses (along with the address in the header) apply
 to account which several people use for email purposes.  If you 
 respond to me via email, please indicate "LTD" as the recipient
 in the "Subject" line.  Thanks.

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Subject: Controlling Biff
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