On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 01:43:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 1999 at 12:32:52PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Rob Mahurin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Question: I would like to have an xbiff-type mail alert on my
> > > desktop, but I read my mail off of a remote server. Is there an easy
> >
> > ssh remote.server.com xbiff
>
> I can think of many, many scenarios in which this will not work.
>
> It presumes the user has a Unix shell account on the remote host.
> It presumes the remote host has the xbiff program available.
>
Both of these happen to be accurate in this case; I think I said in my
original question that my other option was some kind of a telnet
script. But do you have a more general solution?
Rob
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