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1.1       root        1: .TH CHECKNOTES 1 "University of Illinois"
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: checknotes \- check for new notesfile articles
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B checknotes
                      6: [
                      7: .B "-qnvs"
                      8: ]
                      9: [
                     10: .BR "-a" "name"
                     11: ]
                     12: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     13: .I "Checknotes"
                     14: reports on the existence of new notes.
                     15: The 
                     16: .I "NFSEQ"
                     17: environment variable is read to determine
                     18: the notesfiles to examine for new text.
                     19: .I "Checknotes"
                     20: then looks at each of the notesfiles to determine 
                     21: if there are new notes.
                     22: The various flags specify the method of notification.
                     23: The flags are mutually exlusive.
                     24: .PP
                     25: The
                     26: .B "-q"
                     27: option specifies a message ``There are new notes''
                     28: when such is the case.
                     29: No text is printed if there are no new notes.
                     30: .PP
                     31: Specify 
                     32: .B "-n"
                     33: to get a message ``There are no new notes'' if this is the case.
                     34: If there are new notes, no message is printed.
                     35: .PP
                     36: With the
                     37: .B "-v" 
                     38: option enabled, 
                     39: .I "checknotes"
                     40: prints the name of each notesfile containing new notes.
                     41: .PP
                     42: The 
                     43: .B "-s"
                     44: option is silent; no output is produced.
                     45: .PP
                     46: Regardless of the option, the program exits with 0 (TRUE)
                     47: if new notes exist and with 1 (FALSE) if no new notes exist.
                     48: .PP
                     49: The
                     50: .B "-a"
                     51: option specifies a 
                     52: .IB "subsequencer" "."
                     53: This allows several people sharing the same signon to maintain
                     54: their own sequencer files.
                     55: This switch does not allow users to forge other user's sequencer
                     56: files.
                     57: Since the
                     58: .I "name"
                     59: is concatenated with the user name, 
                     60: arbitrarily long subsequencer names aren't necessarily unique.
                     61: A good rule of thumb is to ensure the first 6 characters of any
                     62: given user's subsequencer names are unique.
                     63: .SH FILES
                     64: .PD 0
                     65: .TP 45
                     66: /etc/passwd
                     67: for the users name
                     68: .TP 45
                     69: /etc/group
                     70: for the users group(s)
                     71: .TP 45
                     72: /usr/spool/notes
                     73: the default notesfile data base
                     74: .TP 45
                     75: /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/\fIuser\fP
                     76: Sequencing timestamps for
                     77: .I user.
                     78: .TP 45
                     79: /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/\fIuser\fP:\fIsubsequencer\fP
                     80: Sub-sequencing timestamps for
                     81: .I user.
                     82: .PD
                     83: .SH SEE ALSO
                     84: notes(1),
                     85: .br
                     86: .ul
                     87: The Notesfile Reference Manual
                     88: .SH AUTHORS
                     89: .nf
                     90: Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%[email protected])
                     91: Department of Computer Science
                     92: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
                     93: Urbana, IL
                     94: .sp
                     95: Rob Kolstad ([email protected])
                     96: CONVEX Computer Corporation
                     97: Richardson, TX
                     98: .fi

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