rcvtty Reference Guide

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rcvtty: notify user about message from standard input

command
UNIX command to read message and format for tty (default: scan-like listing)
-form formatfile, more...
scan-like format file for message display
-biff
Notify if biff y used (default: mesg y permission)
-newline (default)
Output a newline character before notice
-nonewline
Don't output newline before notice
-bell (default)
Ring terminal bell before notice
-nobell
Don't ring bell

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Last change $Date: 1996/06/06 15:12:49 $

This file is from the third edition of the book MH & xmh: Email for Users & Programmers, ISBN 1-56592-093-7, by Jerry Peek. Copyright © 1991, 1992, 1995 by O'Reilly & Associates, Inc. This file is freely-available; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. For more information, see the file copying.htm.

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