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1.1     ! root        1: .\" Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
        !             2: .\" All rights reserved.  The Berkeley software License Agreement
        !             3: .\" specifies the terms and conditions for redistribution.
        !             4: .\"
        !             5: .\"    @(#)comsat.8c   6.2 (Berkeley) 5/20/86
        !             6: .\"
        !             7: .TH COMSAT 8C "May 20, 1986"
        !             8: .UC 5
        !             9: .SH NAME
        !            10: comsat \- biff server
        !            11: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !            12: .B /etc/comsat
        !            13: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            14: .I Comsat
        !            15: is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail
        !            16: and notifies users if they have requested this service.
        !            17: .I Comsat
        !            18: receives messages on a datagram port associated with the ``biff'' service
        !            19: specification (see
        !            20: .IR services (5)
        !            21: and
        !            22: .IR inetd (8)).
        !            23: The one line messages are of the form
        !            24: .PP
        !            25: .ti +0.5i
        !            26: user@mailbox-offset
        !            27: .PP
        !            28: If the
        !            29: .I user
        !            30: specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has
        !            31: the owner execute bit turned on (by a ``biff y''), the
        !            32: .I offset
        !            33: is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file and
        !            34: the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed
        !            35: on the user's terminal.  Lines which appear to be part of
        !            36: the message header other than the ``From'', ``To'', ``Date'',
        !            37: or ``Subject'' lines are not included in the displayed message.
        !            38: .SH FILES
        !            39: .DT
        !            40: /etc/utmp      to find out who's logged on and on what terminals
        !            41: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            42: biff(1), inetd(8)
        !            43: .SH BUGS
        !            44: The message header filtering is prone to error.
        !            45: The density of the information presented is near the theoretical minimum.
        !            46: .PP
        !            47: Users should be notified of mail which arrives on other
        !            48: machines than the one to which they are currently logged in.
        !            49: .PP
        !            50: The notification should appear in a separate window so it
        !            51: does not mess up the screen.

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