From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Jul 24 6:38:44 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 0412E37B495; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:38:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from axl.seasidesoftware.co.za (axl.seasidesoftware.co.za [196.31.7.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4214F43E42; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 06:38:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sheldonh@starjuice.net) Received: from sheldonh by axl.seasidesoftware.co.za with local (Exim 4.10) id 17XMN0-000FLJ-00; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:40:02 +0200 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:40:02 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn To: Johan Karlsson Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: adding '-t tty' to biff(1)/mesg(1) Message-ID: <20020724134002.GC57998@starjuice.net> Mail-Followup-To: Johan Karlsson , arch@freebsd.org References: <20020723225247.G50574@numeri.campus.luth.se> <20020724074730.GE56717@starjuice.net> <20020724152144.C58742@numeri.campus.luth.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020724152144.C58742@numeri.campus.luth.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 (2002/07/24 15:21), Johan Karlsson 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. Be aware that Robert Drehmel already has a patch for this, but has been having trouble sending email. He told me this a few moments ago on IRC. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message