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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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