| NEWS(1) | NEWS(1)

NAME

| news – print news items

SYNOPSIS

| `news` [ `−a` ] [ `−n` ] [ item ... ]

DESCRIPTION

When invoked without options, this simple local news service prints files that have appeared in `/lib/news` since last reading, most recent first, with each preceded by an appropriate header. The time of reading is recorded. The options are
`−a` Print all items, regardless of currency. The recorded time is not changed.
`−n` Report the names of the current items without printing their contents, and without changing the recorded time.

Other arguments select particular news items.

To post a news item, create a file in `/usr/local/plan9/news`.

Empty news items, and news items named `core` or `dead.letter` are ignored.

FILES

`/usr/local/plan9/news/*
`

| articles

`$HOME/lib/newstime
`

| modify time is time news was last read who gets news mailed to them

SOURCE

| `/usr/local/plan9/src/cmd/news.c`