news(1)
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news Command
print news items
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SYNTAX
news [ -a ] [ -n ] [ -s ] [ items ]
DESCRIPTION
News keeps the user informed of current events. By convention,
these events are described by files in the directory /usr/news.
When invoked without arguments, news prints the contents of all
current files in /usr/news, most recent first, with each preceded
by an appropriate header. News stores the currency time as the
modification date of a file named .newstime 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.
The -a option causes news to print all items, regardless of
currency. In this case, the stored time is not changed.
The -n option causes news to report the names of the current
items without printing their contents, and without changing the
stored time.
The -s option causes news to 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 your .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 you type an interrupt during the printing of a news item,
printing stops and the next item is started. Another interrupt
within one second of the first terminates the program.
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EXAMPLES
$ news
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news(1)
Prints all the news items on the system that you have not already
read.
$ news reorg
Prints just the news item "reorg".
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FILES
/etc/profile
/usr/news/*
$HOME/.news_time
SEE ALSO
profile(4), environ(5) in the Programmer's Reference for the
DG/UX System
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