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From: geoff@hinode.East.Sun.COM (Geoff Arnold @ Sun BOS - R.H. coast near the top)
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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: 9 Oct 89 14:12:34 GMT
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In article <27675@amdcad.AMD.COM# indra@snap.AMD.COM (Indra Singhal) writes:
#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.
#

Thanks for the plug, Indra, but there is still a place for the function
which Eliot requested. It would indeed be nice to run a TSR which would
check your spool file on the POP server and notify you when it changed,
so that you could then run LifeLine Mail to read it. (Obviously if you
run in SMTP mode you get the popups on every incoming message.)

I can't imagine that this TSR would be too complicated, but I must 
confess that I haven't got time right now to write it. Can anyone
oblige? 

Geoff

Geoff Arnold,                              Internet: geoff@East.Sun.COM
PCDS Group, Sun Microsystems Inc.
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