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# HOW TO EDIT THIS FILE:
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# The "handy ruler" below makes it easier to edit a package description. Line
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# up the first '|' above the ':' following the base package name, and the '|'
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# on the right side marks the last column you can put a character in. You must
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# make exactly 11 lines for the formatting to be correct. It's also
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# customary to leave one space after the ':'.
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|-----handy-ruler------------------------------------------------------|
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biff+comsat: biff+comsat (mail arrival notification daemon)
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biff+comsat:
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biff+comsat: Comsat is the server process which receives reports of incoming mail
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biff+comsat: and notifies users if they have requested this service. "biff" is
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biff+comsat: the program that requests comsat service "biff y", and may be placed
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biff+comsat: in a user's startup file if they'd like to hear a beep and trash
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biff+comsat: their console with each new piece of junk mail. ;-)
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biff+comsat:
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biff+comsat: Biff was the name of Heidi Stettner's dog, who barked when the
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biff+comsat: mailman came. Biff was well known to many of the early BSD developers
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biff+comsat: living in Evans Hall at U.C. Berkeley.
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