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Xlbiff lets you preview new mail to decide if you want to read it
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immediately. Regular xbiff lets you know when you have mail but not what
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it is.
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Xlbiff lurks in the background, monitoring your mailbox file. When
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something shows up there, it invokes the scanCommand (MH's scan by
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default), and displays the output in a window. If more mail comes in, it
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scans again and resizes accordingly.
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If you're a Berkeley mail person, you can set scanCommand to:
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echo x | mail | grep "^.[NU]"
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Or use the ``frm'' utility that is part of the Elm port as your
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scanCommand. A similar utility is the ``fromwho'' package, posted to
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comp.sources.unix volume 25.
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-- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu)
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