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In article <1713@vicom.COM> lmb@vicom.COM (Larry Blair) writes:
>In article <1628@taux01.UUCP> cjosta@tasu77.UUCP (Jonathan Sweedler) writes:
>=I am running mush on a sun console.  I originally used the tool
>=interface to mush, but discovered that this interface lacks A LOT of
>=the functionality of the curses interface.  I found that I actually
>=prefer the curses interface.  The only problem with this interface is
>=that I no longer get instant notification of my incoming mail.
>
>My solution for this is to run the "newmail" program from the elm distribution.
>I start it in my .profile before it fires up suntools.  The messages that is
>produces when new mail arrives cause my "contool" to flash.

As I believe someone mentioned, curses mode informas you of new mail
more frequently than tool-mode.  However, it does not do it while you
are idle, which is the problem.

If you're on a BSD machine (in the general sense, sun's don't have it by
default) you probably have sysline --a program which tells you of new mail
as well as other interesting info on your status line (the titlebar on suns).
I also have a program called "watch" which, I believe, is portable to any
system.  It tells you the time, $cwd and monitors new mail as it comes in --
It outputs to your status line or can give it an option to echo the escape
sequence to deiconify a winodw in suntools if you like.  Requests for the
source tothis program can be sent to me at cory.berkeley.edu.  X-window
users can use xwatch -- the iconic version of the same program for X11R[23].

Finally, you can write a simple shell script that does nothing but monitor
mail and, in the event of new mail, echo the escape sequence necessary
to open the window.
Dan Heller	<island!argv@sun.com>