jness@ub.d.umn.edu (Joel Ness) (08/16/90)
We have a large number of PC's here hooked to our campus network via
AppleTalk cards. I'd like to get these people using electronic mail
more, but one of the problems is that people don't know if they have
mail until they log on and run the mail program on our central system.
E-mail loses a lot of its value if the person you're sending to only
remembers to check their mail once a week.
On the Mac side they've got some little utilities that scan a mounted
server volume and alert the user when a new file shows up (we run a
program on the central system that puts a new file on their server
account when they get new mail). I'd like to find something that does
the same on the PC side.
Does anyone know of any software, probably some kind of
Terminate-and-Stay-Resident thing, that will give the user a notice
(maybe at the next DOS prompt), whenever a file appears in a subdirctory
it is watching? Or of any other way to accomplish what I'm thinking of?
Please reply by mail and I will summarize what I find to this group.
Thanks a lot.
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