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 /usr/local/sysnews directory. Anyone having write per-
       mission to this directory can create a news file.

       If you run the news command without any flags, it displays
       every unread file in the /usr/local/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     Display all news, also the already read news.

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

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

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

       -l     One article name per line.

       -n     Only show the names of news articles.

       -p     Pipe articles  through  $PAGER  or  `more'  if  the
              $PAGER environment variable is not set.

       -s     Reports the number of news articles.


MAINTAINER OPTIONS
       -e#    Expire news older than # days.

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

BUGS
       maybe :)

AUTHOR
       Charles, <[email protected]>