avolio@decuac.UUCP (04/17/87)
Does anyone have a version of comsat that will use a small window for notification? I have xbif that uses the mailbox icon. What I am looking for is a more informative comsat/biff combo that would print ... well, comsat stuff in another window. I don't find one in the X10R[34] distributions. If there is no such thing, are there reasons why there shouldn't be? (Before I go and write it.) (Oh, and I know you can fake it by opening up a small xterm window, doing a biff y, and leaving it there... not quite what I'd like.) Fred
dcmartin@postgres.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/17/87)
The newest version of xbiff does what you want, ie when you receive new mail it flashes, you hit it with the left button and it gives you comsat style output and then you can hit it with the middle button and get a summary (ala from) and then hit it with the right button and have it start up your mailtool. dcm ps. It is available on prang.Berkeley.EDU or by public ftp to ingres.Berkeley.EDU (pub/X/xbiff.shar).
RWS@ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU.UUCP (04/17/87)
I did one years ago, people around here use it all the time. I'll send you the code I have lying around, and will let others ask YOU for it if they care. Your mileage may vary considerably. Comsat seems to be one of the those things hacked on every system, and which doesn't seem to work when moved to another system. You may just have to extract the relevant pieces of code and reinsert them in your source.