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Article #5554Re: Controlling Biff
From: Jay Hinkelman
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 02:37
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 02:37
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In article <TOWFIQ.90Feb16102953@interlan.Interlan.COM> towfiq@interlan.Interlan.COM (Mark Towfigh) writes: >In article <1579@husc6.harvard.edu> schisto@popvax.harvard.edu (LTD) >writes: > 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. >You would have to modify the program comsat to perform the first >action you desire. Biff is just a program which tells comsat if you >would like to be informed of incoming mail or not. That's funny; on our local 4.3BSD system we have three possible options to biff: y turns on full mail notification (prints the mess on your screen) n turns mail notification off completely b turns on partial mail notification -- terminal beeps twice upon receipt of mail. I had no idea this was a local add-on. Learn something new every night... -- Jay Hinkelman, akf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu "Catch ya later, Bill and Ted!" -- Bill and Ted
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari!aplcen!haven!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!akf From: akf@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Jay Hinkelman) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Controlling Biff Message-ID: <7861@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 26 Feb 90 02:37:13 GMT References: <1579@husc6.harvard.edu> <TOWFIQ.90Feb16102953@interlan.Interlan.COM> Organization: Purdue University Computing Center Lines: 27