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From: indra@snap.amd.com (Indra Singhal)
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Subject: Re: TSR to check PC-NFS network drive for mail?
Keywords: PC-NFS, TSR, mail notification
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Date: 7 Oct 89 00:38:01 GMT
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In article <10171@j.cc.purdue.edu> esmith@psych.purdue.edu (Eliot R. Smith) writes:
>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? 
>
>there is currently no way to get automatic notification of mail arrival
>to the PC via PC-NFS.
>
Not true. PC-NFS Lifeline 1.0 from Sun does exactly what you want and also
provides the PC with a means of doing their own backup of their local hard
disk on to tape or disk on the NFS host. You should check it out.

Mail can be received on the PC using SMTP or the POP protocol. For POP,
however, you need to run a popd on the server. I prefer POP since it allows
mail to remain on the host which in general stays up for longer durations.

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


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