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