Re: biff equivelant

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From: Andy Poling
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:13

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In article <1993Jan21.165454.22210@gserv1.dl.ac.uk> shk@gserv1.dl.ac.uk writes:
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>Is there anything to do the same as biff for SGs

Yes: "chmod u+x `tty`".  That's all that "biff y" does.

Of course, if you aren't running a comsat daemon it'll do little good.  I
recall that porting comsat was pretty easy.  Nonetheless, an IRIX 4.0.*
ready version is available for anonymous FTP from jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu in
pub/public_domains_software/SGI.

Then, of course, your mail system must know how to poke the comsat server --
can't really help you there...

-Andy

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