Awatmath.1992 net.unix-wizards utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!watmath!jcwinterton Fri Mar 12 15:03:46 1982 A suggestion for a change to biff Mark Horton's note and the subsequent one on access modes for teletypes reminded me of why I set "biff n". The other system I use here politely says **Mail Waiting** instead of outputing several lines of junk in the middle of the stuff you are looking at. The suggestion for just a is certainly minimal, and I think, insufficient. Too many other things ring bells as an error indication. How about changing biff to not print out more than some minimal thing (eg you have mail) and letting it go at that? John Winterton decvax!watmath!jcwinterton ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.