biff
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NAME
biff - be notified if mail arrives and who it is from
SYNOPSIS
biff
[
n
] [
y
]
DESCRIPTION
After
biff y,
the system will display
the top of incoming mail on your screen,
as described in
comsat(8).
biff n
turns this off.
biff
applies to your current terminal session;
typically you'd put a
biff y
into your
.login,
.cshrc,
or
.profile.
biff
without an argument tells you your current
``biffing'' status.
The mail notification enabled by
biff
operates asynchronously.
For synchronous notification use the MAIL variable of
sh (1)
or the mail
variable of
csh (1).
biff
requires its input to be your terminal session
(or at least a session you own). All it really
does is handle the owner-execute bit on the terminal.
biff
only looks at the first letter of its first argument.
biff
was named after a dog at Berkeley.
SEE ALSO
csh(1),
sh(1),
mail(1),
comsat(8C)
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