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Date:      Wed, 24 Jul 2002 16:48:56 +0200
From:      Cyrille Lefevre <cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net>
To:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
Cc:        Johan Karlsson <johan@FreeBSD.ORG>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: adding '-t tty' to biff(1)/mesg(1)
Message-ID:  <20020724144856.GC4475@gits.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020724074730.GE56717@starjuice.net>
References:  <20020723225247.G50574@numeri.campus.luth.se> <20020724074730.GE56717@starjuice.net>

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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:47:30AM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> On (2002/07/23 22:52), Johan Karlsson wrote:
> 
> > Currently there is no way of changing the biff/mesg 
> > status of a tty where another program is running.
> > (except if you know all the gory details about biff and mesg)
> 
> For mesg(1), you can use shell redirection to accomplish your goal,
> as with tools like vidcontrol(1):
> 
> 	mesg y < /dev/ttyp7
> 
> This doesn't work for biff(1).

it works using :

	biff n 2< /dev/ttyv3

see comments on PR #13073.

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:cyrille.lefevre@laposte.net

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