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From: edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: biff/comsat not in HP-UX???
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Date: 19 Feb 90 08:42:29 GMT
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In article <2441@bnr-fos.UUCP> tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Thomas Chmara) writes:

  | Now I AM puzzled.  We've got a number of HP machines here, currently running
  | HP-UX 6.5 (they're pretty much exclusively 350s & 360s). I was providing
  | a friend with some X software, including xbiff. He tried it; xbiff
  | displayed its icon, but didn't notify him of incoming mail.

Hmm, now I am also somewhat puzzled... I have a version of xbiff,
which is just a simple wrapper around the Xaw mailbox widget. It does 
not require comsat, it simply checks the mail-folder itself...

Anyway, there's something else you might have ran into. Since Xaw is not
supported in de HP-UX6.5 X11 release, I had to port the Xaw and Xmu
libraries from the X11R3 release. The Xaw mailbox widget uses the
mailbox-directory "/usr/spool/mail", which should be "/usr/mail" in
HP-UX (and other SysV alikes). There is a define for this in the
X11 include files "MailboxP.h", change this to:

	#define MAILBOX_DIRECTORY	"/usr/mail"

and recompile the libraries. Hope this is of any help...


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