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Brian Mathis wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 12:15 PM, r <r-trev AT fastwebmail DOT it> wrote:
>> ok, I'm going to learn to manage basic cygwin-linux features
> [...]
>> I saw unlike linux that cygwin does not warn me when there are new
> [...]
>> Is there a way ( like in linux ) to send a message to my prompt
> [...]
>> R
>=20
> I think one source of confusion is because of the areas I have
> highlighted.  Don't expect cygwin to be like linux, because it is not
> linux.  It is cygwin.  Cygwin gives Windows a "UNIX-like" environment,
> it does not turn Windows into linux or UNIX.

You are helping him the wrong way: the original question was nonsense,=20
Linux doesn't notify users of new mail, the shell can, other=20
applications can... and that's probably what he is chasing (but doesn't=20
admit he doesn't know Linux well enough so he just throws the "I can do=20
it in Linux, why not in Cygwin?").

The practical way of getting mail notifications (in Windows and any=20
other environment with a GUI) is through your mail client.

Yes, bash (and other shells) have the option to notify you.  Use 'shopt=20
-s mailwarn' and define where your spool is (for instance, export=20
MAIL=3D'/var/spool/mail/user-name').

Besides, using a thread to solve multiple questions is bad practice.
--=20
Ren=E9 Berber


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