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From: woof@hpfcmgw.HP.COM (Steve Wolf)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: filter(1) disables biff (was "bell on new mail")
Message-ID: <760003@hpfcmgw.HP.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 90 16:49:33 GMT
References: <1990Oct15.175056.19427@dg-rtp.dg.com>
Organization: HP Fort Collins, CO
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>                            The emulator I have in mind, when iconified
> can flips its icon [reverse video] when it receives a bell [^G].  The
> problem I have is generating a ^G from elm when I get new mail.

I have a program running that periodically compares the mailbox's access
time to its modification time (with stat(2)).  If mtime > atime, there
is new mail and the icon colors are reversed.  Clicking on the icon
fires up elm as a child process.

I can't give out the source (it's part of HP Vue), but the concept is
simple enough.
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Steve Wolf
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