NAME

checknews − check to see if user has news on the USENET news network

SYNOPSIS

checknews [ ynqevv ]  [ readnews options ]

DESCRIPTION

checknews reports to the user whether or not he has news. 

OPTIONS

y is the default if there are no options specified. 

y Reports ‘There is news’ if the user has news to read. 

n Reports ‘No news’ if there isn’t any news to read. 

q Makes checknews quiet.  Instead of printing a message, the exit status indicates news.  A status of 0 means no news, 1 means there is news. 

v alters the y message to show the name of the first newsgroup containing unread news.  Doubling v (that is, vv) displays a report of any claim of new news, and is useful if checknews and readnews disagree on whether there is news. 

e Executes readnews(1) if there is news.

FILES

~/.newsrcOptions and list of previously read articles
/usr/lib/news/activeActive newsgroups

SEE ALSO

M. Horton, How to Read the Network News
inews(1), postnews(1), readnews(1)

Sun System Release 1.0  —  6 July 1983