Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!dali.cs.montana.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!udel!haven.umd.edu!mimsy!mojo!mojo!djm From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: SMail and biff Message-ID: Date: 22 May 91 18:13:22 GMT References: <1991May18.043542.27251@Veritas.COM> <22812@shlump.lkg.dec.com> <22833@shlump.lkg.dec.com> Sender: news@eng.umd.edu (C-News) Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland Lines: 9 In-Reply-To: lan_csse@netrix.nac.dec.com's message of 22 May 91 15:05:45 GMT You are confusing xbiff with biff. xbiff and biff are completely different programs that work completely differently. xbiff periodically stats the mailbox; biff (actually the comsat daemon does all the work; biff just chmods your tty) waits for messages on a socket saying that a user has new mail, and if the user is logged in and `biff y', notifies them. -- David J. MacKenzie