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diff --git a/static/unix-v10/man7/apnews.7 b/static/unix-v10/man7/apnews.7 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..52581d6e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/unix-v10/man7/apnews.7 @@ -0,0 +1,196 @@ +.TH APNEWS 7 alice +.CT 1 inst_info +.SH NAME +apnews, ap.keys \- present AP wire stories +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B apnews +[ +.B -f +.I dir +] +[ +.B -r +] +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Apnews +presents news from the AP wire on a cursor-addressed screen. +The top half of the screen contains 20 +story slugs (two-word labels). +.I Apnews +responds to these commands: +.TP "\w'c file 'u" +.I n +Print story for slug +.IR n ; +page through it by typing newlines. +.TP +.B m +Present more slugs. +.TP +.B \&. +Return to current slug list. +.TP +.B t +Top. Return to first list of slugs +.TP +.BI s " keywords" +Present slugs for stories containing these keywords. +.TP +.B y +Present slugs for stories containing words from the last story read. +.TP +.BI c " file" +Copy. Add story being read to named file or directory. +.TP +.B ? +Print some help. +.PP +To suggest interest, +slugs may be followed by a bracketed number that shows +the average number of pages (up to 5) that readers +have perused. +Option +.B -r +turns this feature off. +.PP +Option +.B -f +directs the attention of +.I apnews +to a specified directory of AP stories, as may be collected by +.FR ap.keys . +.PP +To monitor news automatically, put a file +.F ap.keys +in your home directory. +This file contains instructions marked by +.LR * , +each followed by one or more search lines. +Instructions specify what to capture: +.TP +.B S +whole story +.PD0 +.TP +.B P +first paragraph +.TP +.B H +heading +.PD +.LP +then what to do with it: +.TP +.BI | " command +specifying a command (often mail) to be executed with the +story as standard input +.PD0 +.TP +.BI > " file" +.PD +specifying a file or directory to add the story to; +pathnames are relative to your home directory +.PP +If no instruction is present, the default is +.IP +.L *S | mail yourself +.PP +Search lines may contain: +.IP (1) +a sequence of blank-separated words; these words +must occur in this order +.PD0 +.IP (2) +a sequence of words separated +by commas; these words must appear in the same sentence +.IP (3) +a sequence of words separated by periods; these words may +occur anywhere in the story, but all must appear +.PD +.PP +Combinations +are allowed, e.g.\& +.L " x . y, z" +specifies +.L y +and +.L z +in the same sentence and +.L x +somewhere in the same story. +The character +.L ! +means not, so that +.L !chocolate chip +means +.L chip +not preceded by +.LR chocolate . +Some suffixes are removed; and +capitals are ignored except when entire words are +capitalized. +Thus +.L ERA +and +.L era +are distinguished, but +.L Waters +and +.L waters +are not. +Special `words' specify story types: +.TP +.B #f +flash +.PD0 +.TP +.B #b +bulletin +.TP +.B #u +urgent news +.TP +.B #r +regular news +.TP +.B #d +deferred news +.PD +.SH EXAMPLES +.EX +*S > stuff +bell laboratories +FCC . telephone, regulation +*P | mail joe +#b +AM-NewsDigest +.EE +.SH FILES +.F ap.keys +.br +.F /usr/spool/ap/* +.SH BUGS +.I Apnews +can fail to work well in a +.IR mux (9.1) +window, for two reasons. +.br +(1) The window needs a terminal emulator. +Before invoking +.I apnews, +do +.L "exec term 5620" +(or +.BR 2621 ); +see +.IR term (9.1). +.br +(2) Remote execution needs a transparent connection. +If logged in elsewhere make the connection to the serving machine by doing, for example, +.L "ndcon alice +or +.LR "nrx alice apnews" +(after downloading an emulator, if +necessary); +see +.IR dcon (1). |
