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- From: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: How to repeat "new Mail message" ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.093807@mccall.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 15:38:07 GMT
- References: <1jm4nnINN59b@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- Reply-To: tp@mccall.com (Terry Poot)
- Organization: The McCall Pattern Co., Manhattan, KS, USA
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- In article <1jm4nnINN59b@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>,
- jogl@merry.imib.rwth-aachen.de (Joachim Glaubrecht #Alwd#) writes:
- >so, in brief words:
- >is there a procedure like "NEW_MAIL.COM" i can call, that repeats
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >the 'You have 1 new Mail message.' message ?
- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- >ANY hint is wellcome ...
-
- Just use the MAIL command with no arguments. When mail starts, it tells you how
- many new messages you have. Make sure the line following your mail command is
- not blank. Mail then sees an end of file and exits. So, make the last 2 lines of
- your login.com:
-
- $ mail
- $ exit
- --
- Terry Poot <tp@mccall.com> The McCall Pattern Company
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