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From: irf@kuling.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: q: being notified of new mail
Message-ID: <541@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Oct-87 12:33:19 EST
Article-I.D.: kuling.541
Posted: Fri Oct 30 12:33:19 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 3-Nov-87 02:08:06 EST
References: <4350001@wdl1.UUCP> <9111@mimsy.UUCP>
Reply-To: irf@kuling.UUCP (Stellan Bergman)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <9111@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <4350001@wdl1.UUCP> garyo@wdl1.UUCP (gary ogasawara) writes:
>>What do I have to do so that when new mail arrives, I am interrupted
>>and a message is displayed on my window?
>In (some?) C shells, you can set a variable called `mail' that tells
>the shell to announce new mail before printing a prompt:
>	set mail = /usr/spool/mail/$user
>or
>	set mail = (600 /usr/spool/mail/$user)

In HP-UX I write

        set mail = (60 /usr/mail/$LOGNAME /etc/motd)

and get notified if, within the last 60 seconds, there is new mail
for me or if there is a new "message-of-the-day" (motd).


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Bo Thide', Swedish Institute of Space Physics. UUCP: ...enea!kuling!irfu!bt
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