Controlling Biff

]none schisto at popvax.harvard.edu
Wed Feb 14 23:54:21 AEST 1990


Greetings net.friends,
    I would very much like to control the "biff" command.  As i've
seen in the 4.3BSD manual and our on-line Ultrix 3.0 manual, i only
have the option of turning biff on or off.  The control i seek would
ideally allow me to set biff to write to screen as much of the incoming 
message as i would like.  If the ideal isn't possible, then perhaps
someone knows how to get biff to simply beep with either a simple
message saying "you have mail" or no message at all.

Thanks for your attention,
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