NAME

news - print news items

SYNOPSIS

news [ -a ] [ -n ] [ item ... ]

DESCRIPTION

When invoked without options, this simple local news service prints files that have appeared in /lib/news since last reading, most recent first, with each preceded by an appropriate header. The time of reading is recorded. The options are

-a

Print all items, regardless of currency. The recorded time is not changed.

-n

Report the names of the current items without printing their contents, and without changing the recorded time.

Other arguments select particular news items. To post a news item, create a file in /news. Empty news items, and news items named core or dead.letter are ignored.

FILES

/news/*

articles

$HOME/lib/newstime

modify time is time news was last read who gets news mailed to them

SOURCE

/src/cmd/news.c