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From: fsfacca@AVELON.LERC.NASA.GOV (Tony Facca)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: positioning mailbox
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Date: 20 Sep 90 17:20:58 GMT
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> I would like to have the Irix mailbox utility open automatically in a
> preferred position on the monitor when I log in - is there a way to do this?

I have found these lines in my $HOME/user.ps file to be helpful:

/RestartActions [
    {    .
	 .
	 .
    (mailbox -S " `hostname`" -s 120) forkunix
	 .
	 .
    }
] store
	 .
	 .
(MAIL) 136 130 preforigin
(mailbox) 930 35 preforigin

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