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From: amos@taux01.UUCP (Amos Shapir)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: q: being notified of new mail
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Date: Sat, 5-Dec-87 17:35:44 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  5 17:35:44 1987
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Reply-To: amos%taux01@nsc.com (Amos Shapir)
Organization: National Semiconductor (Israel) Ltd. Home of the 32532
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Summary: Shell is beautiful
Hdate: 15 Kislev 5748


While we are at it: you don't even need a special program to do that -
I'm using a shell file that keeps the output of 'wc' in a sh variable,
and may use it as an argument to 'tail' if the contents of the watched
file are wanted. (Implementation is left as an exercise to the reader).
-- 
	Amos Shapir			(My other cpu is a NS32532)
National Semiconductor (Israel)
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