| 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/plan9port/news`.
Empty news items, and news items named `core` or `dead.letter` are ignored.
FILES
| `/usr/local/plan9port/news/*`
| articles
`$HOME/lib/newstime`
| modify time is time news was last read who gets news mailed to them
SOURCE
| `/usr/local/plan9port/src/cmd/news.c`