.TH NETNEWS 7 "local, not alice" .CT 1 comm_users inst_info .SH NAME netnews \(mi send or receive news articles .SH SYNOPSIS .B netnews [ .I option ... ] .PP .B netnews .B -s [ .I newsgroup ... ] .PP .B netnews .B -i .I title [ .B -n .I newsgroup ... ] .SH DESCRIPTION .I Netnews is an intercomputer news service. Used now only locally, it has been replaced by .IR postnews (7) and .IR readnews (7) for outside connections. When invoked without options it prints recent articles. Normally the articles printed are restricted to newsgroups you have signed up for and are newer than your last use of .I netnews. After each article a command is read from the standard input: .TP \w'newline\ 'u newline Go on to next article. .PD 0 .TP .B p Print article again. .TP .B - Go back to previous article. .TP .B c Cancel (restricted to contributor and super-user). .TP .BI "w " file Append a copy of the article to the named .I file. .TP .B r Reply to author (via mail). .TP .B q Exit. .TP .B x Exit without update. .PD .PP The options are: .TP \w'newline\ 'u .B -p Print with no questions asked. .TP .B -r Print in reverse time order. .TP .B -l Print titles only. .TP .BI -a " date" Print articles received after .IR date ; no date means the beginning of time. .TP .BI -n " newsgroup ..." Print articles from named newsgroups. .TP .BI -t " string ..." Print only titles containing one of the .I strings. .TP .BI -s " newsgroup ..." Subscribe to named newsgroups. If no .I newsgroups are given, list your current subscriptions. Newsgroup .L all receives all articles; .L net.all receives all newsgroups that begin with .LR net. , etc. All users subscribe to the newsgroup .LR general . .TP .B -i Insert an article (read from standard input) with title .I title to the newsgroups specified by .B -n (default .LR general ). .PD .SH FILES .TF /usr/spool/news/history .TP .F $HOME/.newsrc user's subscription list .TP .F /usr/spool/news/sys.nnn news articles .TP .F /usr/spool/news/.bitfile bit map of users with news .TP .F /usr/spool/news/.ngfile list of legal newsgroups .TP .F /usr/spool/news/.uindex index of netnews users .TP .F /usr/spool/news/.nindex index of news articles .TP .F /usr/spool/news/.seq sequence number of last article .TP .F /usr/spool/news/.history list of all articles ever seen .TP .F /usr/spool/news/.sys system subscription list .SH SEE ALSO .IR news (7), .IR readnews (7), .IR netnews (5)