Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!eos!shelby!cis!trott From: trott@dolores.Stanford.EDU (Mitchell Trott) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: comsat/biff Message-ID: Date: 7 May 90 23:44:04 GMT Sender: news@cis.Stanford.EDU (USENET News System) Organization: Beardsley Cluster, CSL, Stanford Lines: 18 If anyone is interested, I have a HPUX version of Steve Grimm's comsat/biff package. It's better than the stock BSD version: you can monitor mailboxes on remote machines, and it only drops messages in the window(s) you ask it to. Comsat/biff notifies you about incoming mail by blasting the first four lines of the mail onto your terminal, along with a few beeps. The package has been running successfully on both 300 and 800 series machines here for over a year. The "remote monitor" facility has not been tested as thoroughly. I will shar the files (about 100k worth) and mail them to anyone interested. --- mitch trott@dolores.stanford.edu