


      NEWS(1)                     (UNIX 5.0)                    NEWS(1)



      NAME
           news - print news items

      SYNTAX
           news [ -a ] [ -n ] [ -s ] [ items ]

      DESCRIPTION
           News informs the users about current events, as recorded in
           the /usr/news directory.

           If executed without arguments, news prints all files in
           /usr/news, the newest one first, with appropriate headers.
           News stores the current time in the user's home directory
           (in a file named .news_time) so that it will later know
           which news items are current for the user and which items
           the user has already seen.

           -a option causes news to print all items, regardless of
           currency.  In this case, the stored time is not changed.

           -n causes news to report the names of the current items
           without printing their contents, and without changing the
           stored time.

           -s causes news to report how many current items exist,
           without printing their names or contents, and without
           changing the stored time.  It is useful to include news -w
           in a user's .profile file, or in the system /etc/profile, so
           that each user is notified at log-in time if he has new
           news.

           Any other arguments are taken to be the names of specific
           news itmes that are to be printed.

           To stop the printing of a news item, press DELETE, and the
           next item will start.  To stop all printing, press DELETE
           twice within one second and news will terminate.

      FILES
           /etc/profile
           /usr/news/*
           $HOME/.news_time

      SEE ALSO
           profile(4), environ(5).










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