newsIn its simplest form, news can be invoked by simply typing news. A list of titles of news
items will be displayed in reverse chronological order, together with their submission
dates. The user will be prompted to select an item to read. Any substring of the title
will be sufficient to display that topic. If the substring is not unique, then all the
relevant topics will be sequentially displayed. The topic can be paged through using
RETURN
or quit at any point by typing q. Some items have subtopics and these can be individually displayed
after reading the main item.
Invoking news with the -t option will cause the news items to be listed alphabetically by title, rather than
chronologically. If you wish to bypass the topic listing and read a topic immediately, then it is possible to
type news
title .
News items can be printed by typing p or exported to a disk file by typing e. news -h will give a brief
help description.
news -n will give a listing of all news items posted since your last login. This should be configured by
your Site Manager to run automatically during the system login procedure but you can include this in
your own .login file if necessary.