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% man readnews
% readnews -M
invokes the Mail interface using the selected articles as input.
% readnews -p > x
display stuff from the net, and stores it into a file x.
(at some installations, use cat
/usr/lib/news/active for listings of news groups to which
one can subscribe)
% readnews -x -n net.unix-wizards -t nroff
ignores the .newsrc file (everything is included), fetches articles in
the newsgroup named net.unix-wizards if their title includes the string
"nroff", and lists them on the screen interactively.
% readnews
Read all unread articles using the msgs(1) interface. The .newsrc
file is updated at the end of the session.
% readnews -c ``ed %'' -l
Invoke the ed(1) text editor on a file containing the titles of all
unread articles. The .newsrc file is not updated at the end of the session.
% readnews -n all \!fa.all -M -r
Read all unread articles except articles whose newsgroups begin with
"fa." via Mail(1) in reverse order. The .newsrc file is updated at the
end of the session.
% readnews -p -n all -a last thursday
Print every unread article since last Thursday. The .newsrc file is
updated at the end of the session.
% readnews -p > /dev/null &
Discard all unread news. This is useful after returning from a long trip.
To abort from a reply (you said 'r' at the prompt):
'r' places you to an editor with some header lines already supplied.
To abort, merely delete all the lines in the editor buffer, WRITE OUT
THE NULL FILE, and exit from the editor. The mailer is subsequently
supplied the null file for mailing. Since it can't find a "To:" line,
it doesn't have any way of knowing where to send the null file. You
get a little error message and that's the end of it.
Lindsay Cleveland (...{ihnp4|mcnc|sdcsvax|clyde}!akgua!glc)
See '% man newsrc' for using the .newsrc file.
At some installations, active group names are summarized in
/usr/lib/news/active.