User Commands                                             news(1)

NAME
     news - print news items

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

DESCRIPTION
     news is used to keep the user informed of current events. By
     convention,  these  events  are  described  by  files in the
     directory /var/news.

     When invoked without arguments, news prints the contents  of
     all current files in /var/news, most recent first, with each
     preceded  by  an  appropriate  header.   news   stores   the
     ``currency''  time  as the modification date of a file named
     .news_time in the user's home  directory  (the  identity  of
     this  directory  is  determined  by the environment variable
     $HOME ); only files more recent than this currency time  are
     considered ``current.''

OPTIONS
     -a     Print all items,  regardless  of  currency.  In  this
           case, the stored time is not changed.

     -n     Report the names of the current items without  print-
           ing  their  contents,  and without changing the stored
           time.

     -s     report how many current items exist, without printing
           their  names  or  contents,  and  without changing the
           stored time. It is useful to include such  an  invoca-
           tion  of  news  in  one's  .profile  file,  or  in the
           system's /etc/profile.

     All other arguments are assumed to be  specific  news  items
     that are to be printed.

     If a delete is typed during the printing  of  a  news  item,
     printing  stops and the next item is started. Another delete
     within one second of the first causes the  program  to  ter-
     minate.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
     See environ(5) for a description of the LC_CTYPE environment
     variable that affects the execution of news.

FILES
     /etc/profile

     /var/news/*

     $HOME/.news_time

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User Commands                                             news(1)

ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    | Availability                | SUNWesu                     |
    | CSI                         | Enabled                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

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

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