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- From: berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de (Stephen R. van den Berg)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.apps
- Subject: Re: Thou hast new mail
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 11:44:53 GMT
- Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
- Lines: 22
- Message-ID: <1jm2blINN46t@urmel.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- References: <1993Jan15.064009.27954@Princeton.EDU> <1993Jan20.073720.4284@ericsson.se>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: ikki.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
- Originator: berg@ikki
-
- Michael Salmon writes:
- >In article <1993Jan15.064009.27954@Princeton.EDU>
- >lardieri@hotlips.Princeton.EDU (Stephen Lardieri) writes:
- >|> How can one get /usr/openwin/bin/mail (the OpenWindows replacement for
- >|> /usr/ucb/mail) to give the "Thou hast new mail" message as opposed to
- >|> the more modern "You have new mail" message? (The string is in there,
- >|> according to strings (1).)
-
- >There was a lot of discussion about this at one time. To get this
- >message there needs to be an error, unfortunately I don't remember what
- >the error was.
-
- If I recall correctly, it had something to do with the mtime
- of your system mailbox.
-
- I think that if you manage to get the mtime to be later than the current time
- this message is displayed.
- --
- Sincerely, berg@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
- Stephen R. van den Berg (AKA BuGless). berg@physik.tu-muenchen.de
-
- "My name is Smith, the P is not pronounced."
-