NAME

checknews − check for unread news

SYNOPSIS

checknews

DESCRIPTION

Checknews informs the user whether he has unread news.  It is suitable for running from a .profile (or .login if you use a certain non-standard shell) file. 

Checknews normally runs readnews(1) with the −c option.  As a heuristic concession to practicality, if the user has a .rnlast file in his $HOME directory, checknews runs rn −c −s3 instead. 

FILES

$HOME/.newsrc
/usr/local/lib/news/active

SEE ALSO

readnews(1), rn(1)

HISTORY

Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer. 

BUGS

There are zillions of other news readers in the world. 

7th Edition  —  23 Nov 1990