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NAME

       news - display system news

SYNOPSIS

       news [-adDeflnpvxs] [[article1] [article2] ..]

DESCRIPTION

       The  news  command  keeps  you  informed of news concerning the system.  Each news item is contained in a
       separate file in the /var/lib/sysnews directory. Anyone having write permission  to  this  directory  can
       create a news file.

       If  you  run  the  news  command without any flags, it displays every unread file in the /var/lib/sysnews
       directory.

       Each file is preceded by an appropriate header. To avoid reporting old news, the news  command  stores  a
       currency time. The news command considers your currency time to be the date the $HOME/.news_time file was
       last modified. Each time you read the news, the modification time of this file changes  to  that  of  the
       reading. Only news item files posted after this time are considered unread.

OPTIONS

       -a, --all
              Display all news, also the already read news.

       -d, --datestamp
              Add a date stamp to each article name printed. this can only be used with the -nl flags.

       -D, --datefmt <fmt>
              Specify  a  date format, see the strftime(3) man page for more details.  the default format is (%b
              %d %Y)

       -f, --newsdir <dir>
              Read news from an alternate newsdir.

       -l, --oneperline
              One article name per line.

       -n, --names
              Only show the names of news articles.

       -p, --page
              Pipe articles through $PAGER or more(1) if the $PAGER environment variable is not set.

       -s, --articles
              Reports the number of news articles.

MAINTAINER OPTIONS

       -e, --expire #
              Expire news older than # days.

       -x, --exclude a,b,c
              A comma separated list of articles which may not be expired.  if a file named .noexpire exists  in
              the  /var/lib/sysnews  direcory,  filenames are read from it also. names in this file may be comma
              separated, and/or one per line.

AUTHOR

       Charles, <int@link.xs4all.nl>