moran@ai.sri.com (Doug Moran) (02/22/91)
The following is for inclusion in the FTP-able archive. This program is useful when mail for all users on a net is delivered to a central server, but the users still want to get BIFF notifications. Unresolved problem as of SunOS 4.0.3: because the caching of NFS attributes of the mail file on the clients, the BIFF notification on the client may not get the updated mail file (with the new message) and thus the notification printed will simply be "New mail for USER@HOST has arrived:" -- Doug Moran, SRI Artificial Intelligence Center [Ed's Note: Placed in archives. -bdg]] FTP: Hostname : titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) Directory: sun-source Filename : incomsat.broadcast Filesize : 4386 bytes Archive Server Address: archive-server@rice.edu Archive Server Command: send sun-source incomsat.broadcast