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From: esmith@peru.psych.purdue.edu (Eliot R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: TSR to check PC-NFS network drive for mail?
Keywords: PC-NFS, TSR, mail notification
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Date: 6 Oct 89 17:44:01 GMT
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I'm sure this has been asked before, but I haven't seen it.  Has anyone
written a small TSR for the IBM PC that will co-exist with PC-NFS and
every N minutes, check a file mounted on a network drive for any
changes?  One could then mount one's mail directory via PC-NFS and have
the TSR pop up a text window, beep, or whatever as a signal when new mail
arrives.  The TSR would not have to allow reading mail or anything
fancy, since rsh <hostname> mail from the PC works well for that.  But
there is currently no way to get automatic notification of mail arrival
to the PC via PC-NFS.


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Eliot R. Smith         Dept. of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University
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