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From: Travis Siegel <tsiegel@softcon.com>
To: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight@taconic.net>
Cc: Blind Linux Discussions <blinux-list@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: too much speech
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 19:35:41 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981202193338.26672A-100000@softcon.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981202190922.182A-100000@darkstar.taconic.net>

Heheh.  It took me a while to figure out what you were talking about here
when you were discussing your email problem and having it talk too much.
This is a feature of the mail system (it works on all unix variants as far
as I know) This behavior of displaying the first screen full of email as
it arrives is controled by an environment variable.  If you type biff n at
your prompt (or add it to the system wide profile as I did) then this will
no longer be the default.  Then mail will be quietly delivered to your
mailbox.  Hope this helps.


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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
 Charles Hallenbeck
 ` Travis Siegel [this message]
   ` John Schucker

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