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From: tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Thomas Chmara)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: biff/comsat not in HP-UX???
Message-ID: <2446@bnr-fos.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 90 13:22:58 GMT
References: <2441@bnr-fos.UUCP> <2453@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: tpc@bnr-fos.UUCP (Thomas Chmara)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
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In article <2453@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> edwin@praxis.cs.ruu.nl (Edwin Kremer) writes:
>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...

	See the egg on my face?  Yep, it's there, alright.  I've been informed
through several mechanisms that xbiff stats the mailbox itself, and doesn't
use the facilities of comsat.  The thing that confused me was that I also tried
to find "biff", which of course does use comsat, and discovered it also was
absent.  I mistakenly thought that the xbiff used the same mechanism; I don't
have the sources immediately available, and didn't worry about that.  After
all, *I* have comsat, so doesn't everyone? :-) (some Suncentrism, here, I
suppose..:-))
	Thanks for all the help
		---tpc---
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