Curt -- ...and then Curt W. Zirzow said... % * Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... % > To expand a little on this.
Since I happen to be responding to Curt's followup ... % > % > For some bizarre reason Slackware is distributed with % > % > biff y % > % > In it's /etc/profile. *snort* I ain't goin' there. % > % > The appalling biff program requires "comsat" to do it's job, so that % > is why I guess Slackware has it enabled. So the real fix would be to modify /etc/profile rather than simply turn off comsat and have biff trying to run anyway. % > % > "biff" (named after the author's dog btw) screws the mail access time. % % I wonder if that was an influence on using 'mutt' instead of calling it FYI, the 'author' in question there wrote biff back in the very early days of BSD's variant (IIRC). The story goes that this dog, really named biff, would *always* bark at the mailman when he came by and that came to be a handy service. % something like 'mule'. But then we would have to figure out which email % clients were the horse and donkey. :) Touche :-) Yours for Truth in Trivia, :-D -- David T-G * It's easier to fight for one's principles (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED] * than to live up to them. -- fortune cookie (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.justpickone.org/davidtg/ Shpx gur Pbzzhavpngvbaf Qrprapl Npg!
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