Re: ?

# I've got one for you: you know that "you have new mail" message that
# the shell gives you after you come out of a running program?
# 
# I want to either hack bash or find the Proper Way to augment the shell
# to output a message of my choice to a user's terminal -- but only
# after they exit any running program and before the prompt is
# displayed, in the style of the new mail messages.

It turns out that bash hacking will be required.  Bash's main command
processing loop calls a mail-checking function directly.

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  Jonathan Daugherty
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