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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: q: being notified of new mail
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Date: Mon, 7-Dec-87 22:10:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  7 22:10:51 1987
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In article <1308@bucsb.UUCP>, eap@bucsb.UUCP (Eric Pearce) writes:
#> >If you don't have tra(1) but have good C programming skills,
#> >you can probably write it in 10 minutes.  It just sits and
#> >watches a file's size, displaying anything that's been added
#> >to the file's tail every time it grows.  

Or, "tail -f /usr/mail/mylogin &" [ /usr/spool/mail/mylogin for Bezerkeloids ]

One problem with this might be if you are showing someone else something on
your terminal and a highly personal piece of mail arrives, that might not be
too cool.  Also, it would mess up graphics in graphics-oriented programs and
might even hang the terminal (I'm talking about like TEK tube graphics).
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