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BIFF(1) FreeBSD General Commands Manual BIFF(1) NAME biff -- be notified if mail arrives and who it is from SYNOPSIS biff [n | y | b] DESCRIPTION The biff utility informs the system whether you want to be notified when mail arrives during the current terminal session. The following options are available: n Disable notification. y Enable header notification. b Enable bell notification. When header notification is enabled, the header and first few lines of the message will be printed on your terminal whenever mail arrives. A ``biff y'' command is often included in the file .login or .profile to be executed at each login. When bell notification is enabled, only two bell characters (ASCII \007) will be printed on your terminal whenever mail arrives. The biff utility operates asynchronously. For synchronous notification use the MAIL variable of sh(1) or the mail variable of csh(1). DIAGNOSTICS The biff utility exits with one of the following values: 0 Notification is enabled. 1 Notification is disabled. >1 An error occurred. SEE ALSO csh(1), mail(1), sh(1), comsat(8) HISTORY The biff command appeared in 4.0BSD. It was named after the dog of Heidi Stettner. He died in August 1993, at 15. FreeBSD 11.1 August 9, 2002 FreeBSD 11.1
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