Aphs.308 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!phs!dennis Sat Mar 13 10:56:53 1982 Re: watmath.1992: A suggestion for a change to biff 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.