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Package: biff
Version: 1:0.17.pre20000412-1.3
Section: mail
Priority: standard
Architecture: mipsel
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
Installed-Size: 104
Maintainer: Dave Holland <dave@debian.org>
Description: a mail notification tool
 biff is a small program that prints a message to your terminal
 when new email arrives. Actually, the message is printed by
 the comsat daemon, and biff just enables/disables the u+x
 permission flag for the terminal, which comsat uses to determine
 whether or not to write to your terminal.
 .
 biff is mainly of historic interest, since there are much better
 alternatives (xbiff, gbiff) that are network-aware and do not
 require a daemon. Although there are no known security problems,
 running additional services is often considered risky.
 .
 By default, the biff service is disabled. To use biff email
 notification, you must enable this service by running 'update-inetd
 --enable biff' after the package is installed. You may also need
 to modify the configuration of your mail transport agent to enable
 comsat notification.