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From: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm,unix-pc.general
Subject: Re: ELM: Want to remove mail file when done: How?
Summary: Not necessary under 3.5
Keywords: elm mail
Message-ID: <7495@killer.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 10 Mar 89 17:54:28 GMT
References: <390@flatline.UUCP> <4821@pbhyf.PacBell.COM>
Reply-To: wnp@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Wolf Paul)
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection BBS, Dallas, Tx
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In article <390@flatline.UUCP> erict@flatline.UUCP (Lemmy Caution) writes:
+ AT&T 3b1, 3.0 OS.
+ The window manager of a 3b1 puts a mail icon at the top of the screen
+ if mail exists for the user.  "Mail" is defined as a non-zero length
+ file existing as /usr/mail/username.
+ To get rid of the icon, the mail file has to dissappear -- not just become
+ zero lenght.  (You can also hit keystrokes to get rid of the icon, but the
+ idea is that after you read your mail, the icon goes away...)

1. The mail icon is put up by smgr, not wmgr;

2. On my 3b1 system (3.5 with the improved wmgr from THE STORE), the icon DOES
   disappear a couple of seconds after ELM terminates, even though the
   mail file is only zeroed, not deleted.
   Does anyone know definitively if 3.5 and 3.51 are different in this regard,
   or where this is defined/explained in the manuals?
-- 
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