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From: fritz@unocss.UUCP (Tim Russell)
Newsgroups: news.software.anu-news
Subject: Re: NOTIFICATION OF NEW ITEMS AT LOGIN
Message-ID: <2108@unocss.UUCP>
Date: 12 Oct 89 21:25:28 GMT
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SLOANE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (Bob Sloane) writes:

|Just out of curiosity, why not put the command "$ NEWS/SCAN" in your
|SYLOGIN.COM file, or have users put it in their LOGIN.COM files? It sounds
|like this is just what you want to me.

     Bleah..  I dare say that the original poster wants a specific program
that only shows registered, local groups.  He probably also wants something
faster than NEWS/SCAN.

     Here, we use a newsgroup to communicate announcements/etc to the
user room consulting staff..  A small FAST program to notify the user of
messages in certain groups would definitely be appreciated.  Alas, I
don't have time to write it.  NEWS/SCAN just isn't an option when you log
in and out as often as we do and NEWS takes around 30 seconds to start up..

-- 
Tim Russell   Univ. Of Nebr. at Omaha   russell@{zeus.unl.edu | unoma1.bitnet}
"I'm against any law that I wouldn't break if I could get away with it."
                                             -- A. Whitney Brown, SNL