[Techtalk] Dumb Question re: email on shell

[Charlotte Oliver]

Oooh, ooh, I know one!

The program responsible for that is called biff.
"biff n" in your .profile (or its equivilent)
should turn it off for you.  (i.e. I use bash,
so the line is my .bash_profile)

:)

Charlotte

On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 04:34:13AM -0400, Jennifer S. Davis wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> I was wondering what the name of the program is that annouces emails
> arriving.  When I am telnetting into my machine and mail arrives, my
> screen gets messed up.  I would prefer just to disable it if possible.
> 
> 
> Thanks...
> 
> 
> Jenn
> 
> 
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