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utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!pur-ee!davy
Mon Mar 15 10:41:49 1982
Re: watmath.1992: A suggestion for a change to biff


Here at pur-ee, they made a change to biff, adding a "-s" flag (for shut-up
or something, I guess).  As usual, regular "biff y" will say "new mail from
Kilroy" and barf half the letter on your screen.  But, "biff -s y" will,
when mail arrives, print:

               \n New mail from kilroy:<SUBJECT FIELD><BEEP>\n

It makes things much nicer, particularly when you're looking at output from
a program, in more, news, etc.

--Dave Curry
pur-ee!davy


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