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| 1.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1991, 1993
2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
3.\"
4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
6.\" are met:
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8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
12.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
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14.\" This product includes software developed by the University of
15.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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17.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
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49.Dq biff
50service
51specification (see
52.Xr services 5
53and
54.Xr inetd 8 ) .
55The one line messages are of the form:
56.Pp
57.Dl user@mailbox-offset[:mailbox-name]
58.Pp
59If the
60.Em user
61specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has
62the owner execute bit turned on (by a
63.Dq Li biff y ) ,
64the
65.Em offset
66is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file and
67the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed
68on the user's terminal. Lines which appear to be part of
69the message header other than the
70.Dq From ,
71.Dq \&To ,
72.Dq Date ,
73or
74.Dq Subject
75lines are not included in the displayed message.
76.Pp
77If mailbox-name omitted, standard mailbox assumed.
78.Sh FILES
79.Bl -tag -width /var/mail/user -compact
80.It Pa /var/run/utmp
81to find out who's logged on and on what terminals
82.It Pa /var/mail/user
83standard mailbox
84.El
85.Sh SEE ALSO
86.Xr biff 1 ,
87.Xr inetd 8
88.Sh BUGS
89The message header filtering is prone to error.
90The density of the information presented is near the theoretical minimum.
91.Pp
92Users should be notified of mail which arrives on other
93machines than the one to which they are currently logged in.
94.Pp
95The notification should appear in a separate window so it
96does not mess up the screen.
97.Sh HISTORY
98The
99.Nm
| 51.Dq biff
52service
53specification (see
54.Xr services 5
55and
56.Xr inetd 8 ) .
57The one line messages are of the form:
58.Pp
59.Dl user@mailbox-offset[:mailbox-name]
60.Pp
61If the
62.Em user
63specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has
64the owner execute bit turned on (by a
65.Dq Li biff y ) ,
66the
67.Em offset
68is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file and
69the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed
70on the user's terminal. Lines which appear to be part of
71the message header other than the
72.Dq From ,
73.Dq \&To ,
74.Dq Date ,
75or
76.Dq Subject
77lines are not included in the displayed message.
78.Pp
79If mailbox-name omitted, standard mailbox assumed.
80.Sh FILES
81.Bl -tag -width /var/mail/user -compact
82.It Pa /var/run/utmp
83to find out who's logged on and on what terminals
84.It Pa /var/mail/user
85standard mailbox
86.El
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88.Xr biff 1 ,
89.Xr inetd 8
90.Sh BUGS
91The message header filtering is prone to error.
92The density of the information presented is near the theoretical minimum.
93.Pp
94Users should be notified of mail which arrives on other
95machines than the one to which they are currently logged in.
96.Pp
97The notification should appear in a separate window so it
98does not mess up the screen.
99.Sh HISTORY
100The
101.Nm
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