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From: jr@CC5.BBN.COM (John Robinson)
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Subject: Re: Problems w/ rmail in Gnuemacs 17.61.1 -- only 'get's first time
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Date: Mon, 8-Sep-86 09:22:59 EDT
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The loadst program that is invoked by (display-time) does the sort of
thing you want; you might try running it.  It spawns a process which
runs every minute (you could lengthen this time) and tells you
information for your mode line: time, load average, i/o activity, and
whether there is mail.

Hardly a kludge...

/jr