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+.\"	$NetBSD: comsat.8,v 1.6 1998/07/04 19:38:39 mrg Exp $
+.\"
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+.\"     from: @(#)comsat.8	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
+.\"
+.Dd June 4, 1993
+.Dt COMSAT 8
+.Os BSD 4.2
+.Sh NAME
+.Nm comsat
+.Nd biff server
+.Sh SYNOPSIS
+.Nm
+.Op Fl l
+.Sh DESCRIPTION
+.Nm
+is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail
+and notifies users if they have requested this service.
+.Nm
+receives messages on a datagram port associated with the
+.Dq biff
+service
+specification (see
+.Xr services 5
+and
+.Xr inetd 8 ) .
+The one line messages are of the form:
+.Pp
+.Dl user@mailbox-offset
+.Pp
+If the
+.Em user
+specified is logged in to the system and the associated terminal has
+the owner execute bit turned on (by a
+.Dq Li biff y ) ,
+the
+.Em offset
+is used as a seek offset into the appropriate mailbox file and
+the first 7 lines or 560 characters of the message are printed
+on the user's terminal.  Lines which appear to be part of
+the message header other than the
+.Dq From ,
+.Dq \&To ,
+.Dq Date ,
+or
+.Dq Subject
+lines are not included in the displayed message.
+.Sh OPTIONS
+The
+.Nm
+program supports this option:
+.Bl -tag -width 12345
+.It Fl l
+The
+.Fl l
+option turns on
+.Xr syslogd 8
+log messages.
+.El
+.Sh FILES
+.Bl -tag -width /var/run/utmpx -compact
+.It Pa /var/run/utmpx
+to find out who's logged on and on what terminals
+.El
+.Sh SEE ALSO
+.Xr biff 1 ,
+.Xr inetd 8 ,
+.Xr syslogd 8 .
+.Sh BUGS
+The message header filtering is prone to error.
+The density of the information presented is near the theoretical minimum.
+.Pp
+Users should be notified of mail which arrives on other
+machines than the one to which they are currently logged in.
+.Pp
+The notification should appear in a separate window so it
+does not mess up the screen.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+runs as root so that it can open the users maildrop.
+.Sh HISTORY
+The
+.Nm
+command appeared in
+.Bx 4.2 .