watmath.1992: A suggestion for a change to biff
utzoo!decvax!duke!phs!dennis
utzoo!decvax!duke!phs!dennis
Sat Mar 13 10:56:53 AEST 1982
I've installed a change to /bin/mail which causes
it to print "You have mail.\n" when it delivers mail
to anyone currently logged in. The checking of spool/mail
in the shell is turned off completely. Obviously, this has
advantages and disadvantages, but at least among
the systems locally which have adopted it (phs, which
is mostly non-CPS academics, their secretaries and
grad students, and tucc, which is essentially a
bulletin-board system) reaction has been favorable.
I'll happily distribute the sources if anyone is interested.
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