NEWS(1) User Commands NEWS(1)

NAME

news - print news items

SYNOPSIS

news [-a] [-n] [-s] [items]

DESCRIPTION

news is used to keep the user informed of current events. By
convention, these events are described by files in the directory
/var/news.


When invoked without arguments, news prints the contents of all
current files in /var/news, most recent first, with each preceded by
an appropriate header. news stores the ``currency'' time as the
modification date of a file named .news_time in the user's home
directory (the identity of this directory is determined by the
environment variable $HOME ); only files more recent than this
currency time are considered ``current.''

OPTIONS

-a
Print all items, regardless of currency. In this case, the
stored time is not changed.


-n
Report the names of the current items without printing their
contents, and without changing the stored time.


-s
report how many current items exist, without printing their
names or contents, and without changing the stored time. It is
useful to include such an invocation of news in one's .profile
file, or in the system's /etc/profile.


All other arguments are assumed to be specific news items that are to
be printed.


If a delete is typed during the printing of a news item, printing
stops and the next item is started. Another delete within one second
of the first causes the program to terminate.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

See environ(7) for a description of the LC_CTYPE environment variable
that affects the execution of news.

FILES

/etc/profile


/var/news/*


$HOME/.news_time

SEE ALSO

profile(5), attributes(7), environ(7)

December 20, 1996 NEWS(1)