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From: rh26@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert L. Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: TSR to check PC-NFS network drive for mail?
Keywords: PC-NFS, TSR, mail notification
Message-ID: <2424@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: 11 Oct 89 16:30:34 GMT
References: <10171@j.cc.purdue.edu> <27675@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Reply-To: rh26@prism.gatech.EDU (Robert L. Howard)
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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? 
=>
=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.

This is a good product (I use it too) but I don't know of any way to have
it tell you when you get mail (i.e. pop-up and beep).  You have to run
mail and check for mail.

I am also interested in the pop-up scheme....

Robert

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