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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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