NAME

checknews − check if user has news on the USENET news network

SYNOPSIS

checknews [ ynqevv ]  [ readnews options ]

DESCRIPTION

checknews reports to the user whether or not there is news. 

OPTIONS

y Reports ‘There is news’ if the user has news to read.  y is the default if no options are specified. 

n Reports ‘No news’ if there isn’t any news to read. 

q Makes checknews quiet.  Instead of displaying a message, the exit status indicates news.  A status of 0 means no news, 1 means there is news. 

v alters the y message to show the name of the first newsgroup containing unread news.  Doubling v (that is, vv) displays a report of any claim of new news, and is useful if checknews and readnews disagree on whether there is news. 

e Executes readnews(1) if there is news.

FILES

~/.newsrc Options and list of previously read articles

/usr/lib/news/active Active newsgroups

SEE ALSO

inews(1), postnews(1), readnews(1)
Network News User’s Guide in the Beginner’s Guide to the Sun Workstation. 

Sun Release 1.1  —  Last change: 6 March 1984