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From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Messages/News program for Suns
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 22:31:47 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 22:31:47 1987
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As quoted from <8082@brl-adm.ARPA> by MANSFIEL%EMBL.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.EDU (Niall Mansfield):
+---------------
| It seems there is a 'news' facility on SysV, but I can't
| find anything equivalent on our SunOS 3.3 system.  (Someone
| a while back mentioned a 'msgs' program - in the context of
| replacing the motd file - but I haven't been able to reach
| them).
+---------------

A simple "news" program is in K&P (for non-initiates:  THE UNIX PROGRAMMING
ENVIRONMENT by Brian Kernighan and Rob Pike).  It's a shell script, but it
does most of what SysV "news" does, and translating to C shouldn't be too hard.

On the other hand, you can pull a few other things:

"rn general" (!)
ua (!!) -- use the bulletins for important stuff and the less important (or
specific to some department, or details of the bulletins, etc.) in the
message base
a shell script:

	cd /usr/bulletins
	find . -newer $HOME/.last_bulletins -exec echo bulletin: '{}' ';' -exec more '{}' ';'
	touch $HOME/.last_bulletins
	# this needs some work to be really useful
	# it is also a very cheap "news"

Necessity is the mother of invention.

++Brandon
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