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APNEWS(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual 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 directory. ? 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 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 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. specifies and in the same sentence and somewhere in the same story. The character means not, so that means not preceded by Some suffixes are removed; and capitals are ignored ex- cept when entire words are capitalized. Thus and are distinguished, but and 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 (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 ex- ample, or (after downloading an emulator, if necessary); see dcon(1). alice APNEWS(7)