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u (Micah James Cooper) writes:
> Clayton L. Hines ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
>> It's always notified me, although I'm sure there's a spiffy way of turning
>> it off.  Kent, can you lend Micah a hand?
>
> You can tell how much I use the VAX -- but is there a way to do it
> manually like 'messages' per chance?
 
I'm not sure I'm understanding 100% what you're asking for, but it sounds
like you want a program to tell you how many new mail messages you have.
Is this right?
 
There isn't anything on the system that does this exactly, but you could
create something fairly easily.  For example, add the following line to
your LOGIN.COM files:
 
    $ messages == "@sys$login:messages.com"
 
Then create a file called MESSAGES.COM in your login directory that looks
like:
 
    $ OLDMAIL
    EXIT
 
This will enter the OLDMAIL program and immediately EXIT.  When you enter
the OLDMAIL program, it tells you the number of new mail messages.  I use
the OLDMAIL command here rather than the MAIL command because it's
considerably faster.
 
If you want to want to see a listing the new messages you have, you could
change the program listed above to be the following:
 
    $ OLDMAIL
    DIR/NEW
    EXIT
 
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                                     Kent Covert, Software Coordinator
                                     Miami Computing and Information Services
                                     Miami University, Oxford, OH
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