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NAME

6       checknotes - check for new notesfile articles
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SYNOPSIS

9       checknotes [ -qnvs ] [ -aname ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Checknotes  reports  on the existence of new notes.  The NFSEQ environ‐
13       ment variable is read to determine the notesfiles to  examine  for  new
14       text.   Checknotes then looks at each of the notesfiles to determine if
15       there are new notes.  The various flags specify the method of notifica‐
16       tion.  The flags are mutually exlusive.
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18       The  -q option specifies a message ``There are new notes'' when such is
19       the case.  No text is printed if there are no new notes.
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21       Specify -n to get a message ``There are no new notes'' if this  is  the
22       case.  If there are new notes, no message is printed.
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24       With  the  -v option enabled, checknotes prints the name of each notes‐
25       file containing new notes.
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27       The -s option is silent; no output is produced.
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29       Regardless of the option, the program exits with 0 (TRUE) if new  notes
30       exist and with 1 (FALSE) if no new notes exist.
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32       The  -a  option  specifies  a subsequencer.  This allows several people
33       sharing the same signon to maintain their own  sequencer  files.   This
34       switch  does  not  allow  users  to forge other user's sequencer files.
35       Since the name is concatenated with the  user  name,  arbitrarily  long
36       subsequencer  names aren't necessarily unique.  A good rule of thumb is
37       to ensure the first 6 characters of any given user's subsequencer names
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FILES

41       /etc/passwd                                  for the users name
42       /etc/group                                   for the users group(s)
43       /usr/spool/notes                             the default notesfile data
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45       /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/user             Sequencing timestamps  for
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47       /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/user:subsequencer
48                                                    Sub-sequencing  timestamps
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SEE ALSO

52       notes(1),
53       The Notesfile Reference Manual
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AUTHORS

56       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
57       Department of Computer Science
58       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
59       Urbana, IL
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61       Rob Kolstad (kolstad@convex.UUCP)
62       CONVEX Computer Corporation
63       Richardson, TX
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