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biff is a mail notification system for UNIX with support for instant notification in the terminal the recipient is logged in to.

When a new mail message is delivered, the program biff alerts the recipient so he can read it immediately. The alert is sent to the tty where the recipient is logged in, and contains the Subject, From line, and first few lines of the body of the new message. The alert also includes terminal beeps to guarantee quick attention.

To enable notification: biff y

To disable notification: biff n

There are many biff replacements, several with similar names like xbiff, xlbiff, kbiff, gnubiff, wmbiff, imapbiff and xbuffy.

Source: biff - Wikipedia

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jxl - "The file format and extension don't match"

I've written a program to create and write an Excel sheet, close it, and then access it soon after. However, java always gives me the same jxl.read.biff.BiffException: The input file was not found logger message - even though a file does exist at…
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Emacs/GNUs biff display-time-mode not updating mail

I recently made the switch from OpenSUSE 12.2/KDE to Fedora 19/Gnome; my .emacs has stayed the same. In particular, I am using (display-time-mode 1) On KDE, this worked beautifully to provide me a "mail" update whenever my Fetchmail daemon…
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Is there any row limit for excel using BIFF?

I have a code to export my data grid to excell using BIFF4. The problem is it cant accept rows beyond 65536. I asuume it is because the row index is word and it is of 2 bytes. Is there any way i could write more than the available row count? any…
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