biff

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biff /bif/ vt.

To notify someone of incoming mail. From the BSD utility `biff(1)`, which was in turn named after a friendly dog who used to chase frisbees in the halls at UCB while 4.2BSD was in development. There was a legend that it had a habit of barking whenever the mailman came, but the author of `biff` says this is not true. No relation to B1FF.

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