1news(1) User Commands news(1)
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6 news - print news items
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9 news [-a] [-n] [-s] [items]
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13 news is used to keep the user informed of current events. By conven‐
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17 When invoked without arguments, news prints the contents of all current
18 files in /var/news, most recent first, with each preceded by an appro‐
19 priate header. news stores the ``currency'' time as the modification
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21 tity of this directory is determined by the environment variable $HOME
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26 -a Print all items, regardless of currency. In this case, the
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41 All other arguments are assumed to be specific news items that are to
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45 If a delete is typed during the printing of a news item, printing stops
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50 See environ(5) for a description of the LC_CTYPE environment variable
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69 ┌───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
70 │ATTRIBUTE TYPE ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
71 │Availability SUNWesu │
72 │CSI Enabled │
73 └───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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76 profile(4), attributes(5), environ(5)
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80SunOS 5.11 20 Dec 1996 news(1)