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        !            20: .TH COMSAT 8 "June 24, 1990"
        !            21: .UC 5
        !            22: .SH NAME
        !            23: comsat \- biff server
        !            24: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            25: .B comsat
        !            26: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            27: .I Comsat
        !            28: is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail
        !            29: and notifies users if they have requested this service.
        !            30: .I Comsat
        !            31: receives messages on a datagram port associated with the ``biff'' service
        !            32: specification (see
        !            33: .IR services (5)
        !            34: and
        !            35: .IR inetd (8)).
        !            36: The one line messages are of the form
        !            37: .PP
        !            38: .ti +0.5i
        !            39: user@mailbox-offset
        !            40: .PP
        !            41: If the
        !            42: .I user
        !            43: specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has
        !            44: the owner execute bit turned on (by a ``biff y''), the
        !            45: .I offset
        !            46: is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file and
        !            47: the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed
        !            48: on the user's terminal.  Lines which appear to be part of
        !            49: the message header other than the ``From'', ``To'', ``Date'',
        !            50: or ``Subject'' lines are not included in the displayed message.
        !            51: .SH FILES
        !            52: .DT
        !            53: /var/run/utmp  to find out who's logged on and on what terminals
        !            54: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            55: biff(1), inetd(8)
        !            56: .SH BUGS
        !            57: The message header filtering is prone to error.
        !            58: The density of the information presented is near the theoretical minimum.
        !            59: .PP
        !            60: Users should be notified of mail which arrives on other
        !            61: machines than the one to which they are currently logged in.
        !            62: .PP
        !            63: The notification should appear in a separate window so it
        !            64: does not mess up the screen.

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