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:
> 
>
>Why not   news | more    or   news | less   in their .profile.
>
>This way it is always read, and they don't need to know a thing
>

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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