something like motd question
Bill Heiser
bill at unixland.uucp
Thu May 30 10:18:25 AEST 1991
In article <1991May26.143729.9487 at bilver.uucp> bill at bilver.uucp (Bill Vermillion) writes:
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>
>Why not news | more or news | less in their .profile.
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>This way it is always read, and they don't need to know a thing
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Does this work on your Esix system Bill? On mine, when I type 'news',
I see all of the files, regardless of whether or not I've seen them
already.
Of course I can't subject my 1200/2400 baud users to 50 pages of
news (don't know exaclty how many, but there's lots) at every login :-)
-bill
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