[Dxspider-support] Mail Enhancement?

[scarroll at mchsi.com]

Brian,

Actually, the "New Mail Pending" pending (I like Dirk's idea of appending it to 
the end of the prompt) would keep coming up regardless of what the user was 
doing until he/she READ the personal mail.

Please note, in my situation all our user throughout the network are directly 
connected via RF to a cluster. Nobody node hops in order to reach a cluster. 
So, there would be no 'mail pending' prompts being generated over a wide-spread 
area, especially NEVER across a backbone. The prompt would go directly to the 
user and nobody else.

I hope this clears up what I'm suggesting.

73, Steve - K2SC

> Greetings;
> 
> (In the words of OJ... ) to take a stab at this, I would assume that if a
> user is at the keyboard and is active, (s)he may also execute commands which
> the last
> string returned would be the cluster's prompt... such as a show/time which
> would print:
> 
> show/time
> Local Time:  6-Jun-2003 0658, UTC 1058Z
> N1URO de N1URO-3  6-Jun-2003 1058Z >
> 
> I would guesstimate that new mail is (or could be) a boolean expression
> somewhere in the code. If its not, perhaps it could become one and then when
> the user is active and executes a command could it be possible to then include
> a 'new mail beacon' of sorts just prior to the prompt returning? An example of
> what I'm saying would then change the output of the above command to:
> 
> show/time
> Local Time:  6-Jun-2003 0658, UTC 1058Z
> New mail has arrived for you ^G
> N1URO de N1URO-3  6-Jun-2003 1058Z >
> 
> This would then inform the user (s)he has mail waiting and would prohibit
> mail beacons across a network (RF or wired) in the event the user is not at
> the console/keyboard.
> 
> just my worthless $0.02 :-)
> 
> 
> 73 de Brian N1URO
> 
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