news.1 (1152B)
1 .TH NEWS 1 2 .SH NAME 3 news \- print news items 4 .SH SYNOPSIS 5 .B news 6 [ 7 .B -a 8 ] 9 [ 10 .B -n 11 ] 12 [ 13 .I item ... 14 ] 15 .SH DESCRIPTION 16 When invoked without options, 17 this simple local news service 18 prints files that have appeared in 19 .BR /lib/news 20 since last reading, most recent first, 21 with each preceded by an appropriate header. 22 The time of reading is recorded. 23 The options are 24 .TP 25 .B -a 26 Print all items, regardless of currency. 27 The recorded time is not changed. 28 .TP 29 .B -n 30 Report the names of the current items without 31 printing their contents, and without changing 32 the recorded time. 33 .PP 34 Other arguments 35 select particular news items. 36 .PP 37 To post a news item, create a file in 38 .BR \*9/news . 39 .\" .PP 40 .\" You may arrange to receive news automatically by 41 .\" registering your mail address in 42 .\" .BR /sys/lib/subscribers . 43 .\" A daemon mails recent news 44 .\" to all addresses on the list. 45 .PP 46 Empty news items, and news items named 47 .B core 48 or 49 .B dead.letter 50 are ignored. 51 .SH FILES 52 .TP 53 .B \*9/news/* 54 articles 55 .TP 56 .B $HOME/lib/newstime 57 modify time is time news was last read 58 .\" .TP 59 .\" .B /sys/lib/subscribers 60 who gets news mailed to them 61 .SH SOURCE 62 .B \*9/src/cmd/news.c