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- .NC NEWS
- .NA
- news \- show news
- .SY
- news
- \%[topic\ ...]
- \%[\-check]
- \%[\-display]
- \%[\-update]
- \%[\-review\ [topic]]
- \%[\-send\ topic]
- \%[\-topics]
- \%[\-help]
- .SH DESCRIPTION
- \fINews\fR is an \fIMH\fR program which checks, displays, reviews,
- or sends news.
- A pseudo-user called `news' acts as an automated
- custodian for news items on various topics.
- These topics are managed as \fIMH\fR folders in the home directory of news.
- Mail sent to `news.everyone', for instance, will get
- filed in the `everyone' news folder.
-
- You can explicitly select the group of news topics you want
- to check or display by specifying them as arguments to the
- \fInews\fR command.
- If you don't explicitly select topics in this way,
- the topic `everyone' is selected by default.
- Additional default topics can be selected by listing them on a
- \&``News\-Topics:'' line in your MH profile.
- The profile line
- must contain a blank-separated list of topics.
- As a special case, the profile line:
-
- \&``News\-Topics:\ *''
-
- means you want to keep track of all news.
-
- \&``\fINews \fB\-topics\fR''
- will show you what topics exist and
- the number of messages in each.
- Topics selected are marked with asterisks.
- \&``\fINews \fB\-help\fR''
- is like
- \&``\fInews \fB\-topics\fR''
- except that it also displays the syntax of the
- .I news
- command.
-
- \&``\fINews \fB\-check\fR''
- will report the existence of unread news in the selected topics.
- .I News
- without any option arguments
- will display all unread news items from
- all selected topics.
- \&``\fINews \fB\-display\fR''
- is identical to
- .I news
- without an argument, but it suppresses the
- no news message (useful in login scripts).
- \&``\fINews \fB\-review\fR [#] [topic]''
- will redisplay the last # (default all) items
- in the selected topics.
-
- News stores in your MH profile the message number of the most recent news
- item it has shown you in each topic.
- \&``\fINews \fB\-update\fR''
- will update your MH profile to indicate no
- outstanding news items to be read.
-
- \&``\fINews \fB\-send\fR topic''
- is identical to
- \&``mail news.topic''.
- The mail sent to news.topic is
- automatically filed in a folder with
- name topic.
-
- Any unrecognized switches to
- .I news
- are sent along to
- .IR l (1)
- for displaying items, or to
- .IR mail (1)
- for sending a news item.
- .Fi
- ^$HOME/\&.mh\(ruprofile~^The user profile
- ^/usr/news/<topics>~^The news folders
- ^/usr/news/.<topics>~^The number of items in <topics>
- .Pr
- ^News-topics:~^Topics the user is interested in
- .Ps
- ^News-<topic>:~^Current message in news topics
- .Sa
- mh-mail(5), mh(1)
- .De
- `topic' defaults to \*(lqeveryone\*(rq
- .Co
- The current message in each news folder is maintained in the
- user's mh\(ruprofile.
- .En
-