term% cat index.txt APNEWS(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual APNEWS(7)
NAME
apnews, ap.keys - present AP wire stories
SYNOPSIS
apnews [ -f dir ] [ -r ]
DESCRIPTION
Apnews presents news from the AP wire on a video screen. The top half
of the screen contains 20 story slugs (two-word labels). Apnews re‐
sponds to these commands:
n print story for slug n; page through it by typing newlines
m present more slugs
. return to current slug list
t return to first list
s keywords
present slugs for stories containing these keywords
y present slugs for stories containing words from the last story
read
c file (copy) add story being read to named file or directory
? print some help
To suggest interest, slugs may be followed by a bracketed number that
shows the average number of pages (up to 5) that readers have perused.
Option -r turns this feature off.
Option -f directs the attention of apnews to a specified directory of
AP stories, as may be collected by ap.keys.
To monitor news automatically, put a file ap.keys in your home direc‐
tory. This file contains instruction lines marked by stars (*), each
followed by one or more search lines. Instructions specify how much to
capture:
S whole story
P first paragraph
H heading
then what to do with it:
| command
specifying a command (often mail) to be executed with the story
as standard input
> file specifying a file or directory to add the story to; pathnames
are relative to your home directory
If no instruction is present, the default is
*S | mail yourself
Search lines may contain:
- a sequence of blank-separated words; these words must occur in
this order
- a sequence of words separated by commas; these words must appear
in the same sentence
- a sequence of words separated by periods; these words may occur
anywhere in the story, but all must appear
Combinations are allowed, e.g. x . y, z specifies y and z in the same
sentence and x somewhere in the same story. The character `!' means
not, so that !chocolate chip means chip not preceded by chocolate.
Some suffixes are removed; and capitals are ignored except when entire
words are capitalized. Thus ERA and era are distinguished, but Waters
and waters are not. Special `words' specify story types:
#f flash
#b bulletin
#u urgent news
#r regular news
#d deferred news
EXAMPLE
∗S > stuff
bell laboratories
FCC . telephone, regulation
∗P | mail joe
#b
AM-NewsDigest
FILES
/usr/spool/ap/*
alice APNEWS(7)