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34.\" 35.Dd June 4, 1993 36.Dt COMSAT 8 37.Os 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm comsat 40.Nd biff server 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm 43.Sh DESCRIPTION |
44The 45.Nm 46utility is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail |
47and notifies users if they have requested this service. |
48The 49.Nm 50utility receives messages on a datagram port associated with the |
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 --- 35 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 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 |
102utility appeared in |
103.Bx 4.2 . |