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NAME
checknews - check for unread newsSYNOPSIS
checknewsDESCRIPTION
Checknews informs the user whether he has unread news. It is suitable for running from a .profile (or .login if you use a certain non-standard shell) file.Checknews normally runs readnews(1) with the -c option. As a heuristic concession to practicality, if the user has a .rnlast file in his $HOME directory, checknews runs rn -c -s3 instead.
FILES
$HOME/.newsrc/var/lib/news/active
SEE ALSO
readnews(1CN), rn(1)HISTORY
Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.BUGS
There are zillions of other news readers in the world, all with their own idiosyncratic approaches to this issue.| 28 Aug 1994 |
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