APNEWS(7) (alice) APNEWS(7) NAME apnews, ap.keys - present AP wire stories SYNOPSIS apnews [ -f dir ] [ -r ] DESCRIPTION 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). Apnews responds to these commands: n Print story for slug n; page through it by typing newlines. m Present more slugs. . Return to current slug list. t Top. Return to first list of slugs s keywords Present slugs for stories containing these keywords. y Present slugs for stories containing words from the last story read. c file Copy. Add story being read to named file or direc- tory. ? Print some help. 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 -r turns this feature off. Option -f directs the attention of apnews to a specified directory of AP stories, as may be collected by To monitor news automatically, put a file in your home directory. This file contains instructions marked by `*', each followed by one or more search lines. Instructions specify what to capture: S whole story P first paragraph H heading then what to do with it: | command APNEWS(7) (alice) APNEWS(7) specifying a command (often mail) to be executed with the story as standard input > file specifying a file or directory to add the story to; pathnames are relative to your home directory If no instruction is present, the default is `*S | mail yourself' Search lines may contain: (1) a sequence of blank-separated words; these words must occur in this order (2) a sequence of words separated by commas; these words must appear in the same sentence (3) a sequence of words separated by periods; these words may occur anywhere in the story, but all must appear Combinations are allowed, e.g. ` x . y, z' specifies `y' and `z' in the same sentence and `x' somewhere in the same story. The character `!' means not, so that `!chocolate chip' means `chip' not preceded by `chocolate'. Some suf- fixes are removed; and capitals are ignored except when entire words are capitalized. Thus `ERA' and `era' are dis- tinguished, but `Waters' and `waters' are not. Special `words' specify story types: #f flash #b bulletin #u urgent news #r regular news #d deferred news EXAMPLES *S > stuff bell laboratories FCC . telephone, regulation *P | mail joe #b AM-NewsDigest FILES BUGS Apnews can fail to work well in a mux(9.1) window, for two reasons. (1) The window needs a terminal emulator. Before invoking apnews, do `exec term 5620' (or 2621); see term(9.1). (2) Remote execution needs a transparent connection. If logged in elsewhere make the connection to the serving machine by doing, for example, `ndcon alice' or `nrx alice apnews' (after downloading an emulator, if necessary); see APNEWS(7) (alice) APNEWS(7) dcon(1).