Aphs.308
net.unix-wizards
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!phs!dennis
Sat Mar 13 10:56:53 1982
Re: watmath.1992: A suggestion for a change to biff
I've installed a change to /bin/mail which causes
it to print "You have mail.\n" when it delivers mail
to anyone currently logged in.  The checking of spool/mail
in the shell is turned off completely.  Obviously, this has
advantages and disadvantages, but at least among
the systems locally which have adopted it (phs, which
is mostly non-CPS academics, their secretaries and
grad students, and tucc, which is essentially a
bulletin-board system) reaction has been favorable.

I'll happily distribute the sources if anyone is interested.

-----------------------------------------------------------------
gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen <[email protected]>
of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/


This Usenet Oldnews Archive
article may be copied and distributed freely, provided:

1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles.

2. The following notice remains appended to each copy:

The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996
Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.

You are viewing proxied material from gopher.quux.org. The copyright of proxied material belongs to its original authors. Any comments or complaints in relation to proxied material should be directed to the original authors of the content concerned. Please see the disclaimer for more details.