hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) (05/02/91)
I am looking for a public domain version of the 'news' utility found on many SysV machines. This allows new system messages to be read to a user. The message list is dated per user such that each user has to read the message only once, then is never prompted about it again (although the messages may be recalled as requested). I would like to implement this utility on a bsd4.3 machine. (DS5000) Thanks! John Hudson
Kimmo.Suominen@lut.fi (Kimmo Suominen) (05/02/91)
>>>>> On 1 May 91 19:16:38 GMT, hudson@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (John Hudson) said:
John> I am looking for a public domain version of the 'news' utility
John> found on many SysV machines. This allows new system messages to
John> be read to a user. The message list is dated per user such that
John> each user has to read the message only once, then is never
John> prompted about it again (although the messages may be recalled
John> as requested).
I suggest you get "msgs" from the BSD Reno PD sources. It has a more
friendly user interface, and implements message aging, in case you
want it.
I am in the middle of changing from "news" to "msgs", because I can
get "msgs" to run on all platforms we use (HP9000, Sun3-4, Apollo).
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