speech-biff
NAME
speech-biff - Announce number and senders for new emails
SYNOPSIS
speech-biff /var/mail/user other-inbox third-inbox
OPTIONS
DESCRIPTION
This program is a biff variant with speech output. According the Jargon File v4.3.1:
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.
The output is done using the festival utility. On a Debian GNU/Linux system, you need the following packages installed.
The output should be similar to the following:
3 new emails from Foo, Bar and Baz
EXIT CODES
If this program exits with a zero exit status and the correct output should be heard. Nothing else is ever printed to standard output.
This program will exit with a non-zero exit status if there was a fatal error. Both fatal and non-fatal errors will cause output on standard error.
AUTHOR
Mark Suter <suter@humbug.org.au>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2003 Mark Suter <suter@humbug.org.au>
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
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http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt