news(1) [debian man page]

NEWS(1) 							   USER COMMANDS							   NEWS(1)

NAME

       news - display system news

SYNOPSIS

       news [-adDeflnpvxs] [[article1] [article2] ..]

DESCRIPTION

       The  news command keeps you informed of news concerning the system.  Each news item is contained in a separate file in the /var/lib/sysnews
       directory. Anyone having write permission to this directory can create a news file.

       If you run the news command without any flags, it displays every unread file in the /var/lib/sysnews directory.

       Each file is preceded by an appropriate header. To avoid reporting old news, the news command stores a currency time. The news command con-
       siders your currency time to be the date the $HOME/.news_time file was last modified. Each time you read the news, the modification time of
       this file changes to that of the reading. Only news item files posted after this time are considered unread.

OPTIONS

       -a, --all
	      Display all news, also the already read news.

       -d, --datestamp
	      Add a date stamp to each article name printed. this can only be used with the -nl flags.

       -D, --datefmt <fmt>
	      Specify a date format, see the strftime(3) man page for more details.  the default format is (%b %d %Y)

       -f, --newsdir <dir>
	      Read news from an alternate newsdir.

       -l, --oneperline
	      One article name per line.

       -n, --names
	      Only show the names of news articles.

       -p, --page
	      Pipe articles through $PAGER or more(1) if the $PAGER environment variable is not set.

       -s, --articles
	      Reports the number of news articles.

MAINTAINER OPTIONS

       -e, --expire #
	      Expire news older than # days.

       -x, --exclude a,b,c
	      A comma separated list of articles which may not be expired.  if a file named .noexpire exists  in  the  /var/lib/sysnews  direcory,
	      filenames are read from it also. names in this file may be comma separated, and/or one per line.

AUTHOR

       Charles, <int@link.xs4all.nl>

Linux								  18 January 1995							   NEWS(1)

NNGREP(1)						      General Commands Manual							 NNGREP(1)

NAME

       nngrep - grep for news group names (nn)

SYNOPSIS

       nngrep [ -ainprsu ] [ -l ] [ pattern ]

DESCRIPTION

       nngrep can print various selections of the available news groups.

       Without	options,  nngrep will list all currently subscribed newsgroups whose name matches any of the specified patterns.  If no pattern is
       specified, all subscribed groups will be listed.

       The selection of news groups against which the patterns are matches, and subsequently printed by nngrep can be limited  or  expanded  using
       the following command line options and arguments:

       -a     Use both subscribed and unsubscribed groups.  Overrides the -u option.

       -i     Use only ignored groups, i.e. which are not in the presentation sequence.

       -n     Use  only new groups.  Notice that nn considers a group to be new until you have read at least one article in the group, or you have
	      unsubscribed to the group.  This means that even reasonable active news groups may remain "new" for quite some time if it only  con-
	      tains articles which are cross-posted to other groups which occur earlier in your presentation sequence.

       -p     Use only groups with unread (pending) articles.

       -r     Use only read groups, i.e. without unread articles.

       -s     Use only groups which are in the presentation sequence.

       -u     Use only unsubscribed groups.

       These options can be combined if they don't logically exclude each other.

       For example, to get the names of all "source" groups, you can use the command
	    nngrep source

       You can use this to read a specific subset of news groups with nn; for example
	    nn `nngrep -sp source`

LONG LISTING

       A long listing of the matched groups can be requested with the -l option.  It will include the following information:

       SUBSCR	  Specifies whether the group is subscribed or not (yes/no).
       NEW	  Specifies whether the group is new or not (yes/no).
       UNREAD	  Shows the number of unread articles in the group (if any).
       SEQUENCE   Shows the group's index in the presentation sequence.
       GROUP	  The name of the group.

FILES

       ~/.newsrc    The record of read articles
       ~/.nn/init   The presentation sequence

SEE ALSO

       nn(1), nncheck(1), nngoback(1), nngrab(1), nnpost(1), nntidy(1)
       nnadmin(1M), nnusage(1M), nnmaster(8)

AUTHOR

       Kim F. Storm, Texas Instruments A/S, Denmark
       E-mail: storm@texas.dk

4th Berkeley Distribution					    Release 6.6 							 NNGREP(1)