From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 24 6:21:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B613937B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:21:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from numeri.campus.luth.se (numeri.campus.luth.se [130.240.197.103]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A36D243E42 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:21:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from k@numeri.campus.luth.se) Received: (from k@localhost) by numeri.campus.luth.se (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g6ODLjv75309 for arch@freebsd.org; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:21:45 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from k) Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:21:44 +0200 From: Johan Karlsson To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding '-t tty' to biff(1)/mesg(1) Message-ID: <20020724152144.C58742@numeri.campus.luth.se> References: <20020723225247.G50574@numeri.campus.luth.se> <20020724074730.GE56717@starjuice.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020724074730.GE56717@starjuice.net>; from sheldonh@starjuice.net on Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:47:30AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 09:47 (+0200) +0000, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > 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). You are absolutly correct. This is a good enough reason for not committing my changes. Instead I will teach biff(1) to work in this way. Thanks for pointing this out. /Johan -- Johan Karlsson mailto:johan@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message