term% cat index.txt NETNEWS(1) General Commands Manual NETNEWS(1)
NAME
netnews - send or receive news articles
SYNOPSIS
netnews [ -a [ date ]] [ -n newsgroups ] [ -t titles ] [ -lpr ]
netnews -s [ newsgroups ]
netnews -i title [ -n newsgroups ]
DESCRIPTION
Netnews is an intercomputer news service. Without argument it prints
recent articles. After each article a command is read from the stan‐
dard input.
newline Go on to next article.
p Print article again.
- Go back to previous article.
c Cancel (restricted to contributor and superuser).
w file Append a copy of the article to the named file.
r Reply to author (via mail).
q Exit.
x Exit without update.
Option -p prints with no questions asked. Option -r prints in reverse
time order. Option -l prints titles only.
Normally, printed articles must
(1) be more recent than your last use of netnews; option -a adjusts
the time threshold (no date means the beginning of time)
(2) be in one of the user's newsgroups. Option -n specifies differ‐
ent newsgroups.
(3) have no particular title. Option -t restricts titles to contain
one of the specified strings.
Option -s prints the list of newsgroups to which the user subscribes,
or, if newsgroups are given, specifies a new subscription list. News‐
group `ALL' receives all articles. `NET.ALL' receives all newsgroups
that begin with `NET.'. All users subscribe to the newsgroup `gen‐
eral'.
Netnews -i inserts an article (read from standard input) with title ti‐
tle to the newsgroups specified by -n (default `general').
EXAMPLES
netnews -a last tues -n ALL
Read all news since Tuesday.
netnews -alr
Print titles of all news articles of interest, most recent
first.
netnews -s ALL !NET.ALL
Subscribe to all local articles, and no NET articles (obscure
feature).
FILES
/usr/spool/news/sys.nnn news articles
/usr/spool/news/.bitfile bit map of users with news
/usr/spool/news/.ngfile list of newsgroups to which it is legal to
subscribe or submit news
/usr/spool/news/.uindex index of netnews users
/usr/spool/news/.nindex index of news articles
/usr/spool/news/.seq sequence number of last article
/usr/spool/news/.history list of all articles ever seen
/usr/spool/news/.sys system subscription list
SEE ALSO
mail(1), news(1), uucp(1)
BUGS
Netnews and readnews(1) use the same text in different churches.
not alice NETNEWS(1)