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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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