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From: kyrimis@tilt.FUN (Kriton Kyrimis)
Newsgroups: net.games.hack
Subject: Re: How to get to experience level 11+ instantly
Message-ID: <342@tilt.FUN>
Date: Sat, 7-Sep-85 14:35:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: tilt.342
Posted: Sat Sep  7 14:35:31 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 9-Sep-85 01:00:13 EDT
References: <821@whuxlm.UUCP> <4238@alice.UUCP> <508@tymix.UUCP> <835@whuxlm.UUCP>
Reply-To: kyrimis@tilt.UUCP (Kriton )
Organization: Princeton University CS Dept
Lines: 36
Keywords: biff
Summary: 

In article <835@whuxlm.UUCP> wws@whuxlm.UUCP (Stoll W William) writes:
>> I tried sending myself mail, but the "2" never appeared.  What do
>> I have to do to get this to happen?
>
>You have to set the environment variable "MAIL" before playing.
>It should be set to wherever your mail is kept by the system
>(possibly /usr/mail/tymix or /usr/spool/mail/tymix).
>Also, your hack must be compiled with "scrolls of mail" enabled
>(ask the person that installed hack).

You also need to do a "biff n" if your system supports it. Otherwise, instead
of a "2" chasing you, you'll get the usual notification that you have mail.
(At least this is what happens in our implementation on 4.1 BSD...)
The following is a csh script (if you don't have csh, chances are you don't
have biff either :-) ), which we use to start hack up, instead of the one
provided in the distribution (which I beleive contains some errors).
You can use this instead, by replacing the correct paths for the hack
directory and executable.
-----CUT HERE-----
#!/bin/csh -f
setenv HACK /usr/games/hack
setenv HACKDIR /usr/games/lib/hackdir
setenv MAIL /usr/spool/mail/$USER
/usr/ucb/biff n
set b=$status
$HACK $*
if ($b == 0) biff y
-----CUT HERE-----
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	Kriton	(princeton!tilt!kyrimis)
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