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
     .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.''

     -a   option causes news to print all  items,  regardless  of
          currency.   In  this  case,  the  stored  time  is  not
          changed.

     -n   option causes news to report the names of  the  current
          items  without  printing  their  contents,  and without
          changing the stored time.

     -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 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  ter-
     minate.

FILES
     /etc/profile
     /var/news/*
     $HOME/.newstime

SEE ALSO
     profile(4), environ(5) in the System Administrator's  Refer-
     ence Manual.





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