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1.1     ! root        1: .TH APNEWS 7 alice
        !             2: .CT 1 inst_info
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: apnews, ap.keys \- present AP wire stories
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B apnews
        !             7: [
        !             8: .B -f
        !             9: .I dir
        !            10: ]
        !            11: [
        !            12: .B -r
        !            13: ]
        !            14: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            15: .I Apnews
        !            16: presents news from the AP wire on a cursor-addressed screen.
        !            17: The top half of the screen contains 20
        !            18: story slugs (two-word labels).
        !            19: .I Apnews
        !            20: responds to these commands:
        !            21: .TP "\w'c file  'u"
        !            22: .I n
        !            23: Print story for slug
        !            24: .IR n ;
        !            25: page through it by typing newlines.
        !            26: .TP
        !            27: .B m
        !            28: Present more slugs.
        !            29: .TP
        !            30: .B \&.
        !            31: Return to current slug list.
        !            32: .TP
        !            33: .B t
        !            34: Top.  Return to first list of slugs
        !            35: .TP
        !            36: .BI s " keywords"
        !            37: Present slugs for stories containing these keywords.
        !            38: .TP
        !            39: .B y
        !            40: Present slugs for stories containing words from the last story read.
        !            41: .TP
        !            42: .BI c " file"
        !            43: Copy.  Add story being read to named file or directory.
        !            44: .TP
        !            45: .B ?
        !            46: Print some help.
        !            47: .PP
        !            48: To suggest interest,
        !            49: slugs may be followed by a bracketed number that shows
        !            50: the average number of pages (up to 5) that readers
        !            51: have perused.
        !            52: Option
        !            53: .B -r
        !            54: turns this feature off.
        !            55: .PP
        !            56: Option
        !            57: .B -f
        !            58: directs the attention of
        !            59: .I apnews
        !            60: to a specified directory of AP stories, as may be collected by
        !            61: .FR ap.keys .
        !            62: .PP
        !            63: To monitor news automatically, put a file
        !            64: .F ap.keys
        !            65: in your home directory.
        !            66: This file contains instructions marked by
        !            67: .LR * ,
        !            68: each followed by one or more search lines.
        !            69: Instructions specify what to capture:
        !            70: .TP
        !            71: .B S
        !            72: whole story
        !            73: .PD0
        !            74: .TP
        !            75: .B P
        !            76: first paragraph
        !            77: .TP
        !            78: .B H
        !            79: heading
        !            80: .PD
        !            81: .LP
        !            82: then what to do with it:
        !            83: .TP
        !            84: .BI | " command
        !            85: specifying a command (often mail) to be executed with the
        !            86: story as standard input
        !            87: .PD0
        !            88: .TP
        !            89: .BI > " file"
        !            90: .PD
        !            91: specifying a file or directory to add the story to;
        !            92: pathnames are relative to your home directory
        !            93: .PP
        !            94: If no instruction is present, the default is
        !            95: .IP
        !            96: .L *S | mail yourself
        !            97: .PP
        !            98: Search lines may contain:
        !            99: .IP (1)
        !           100: a sequence of blank-separated words; these words
        !           101: must occur in this order
        !           102: .PD0
        !           103: .IP (2)
        !           104: a sequence of words separated
        !           105: by commas; these words must appear in the same sentence
        !           106: .IP (3)
        !           107: a sequence of words separated by periods; these words may
        !           108: occur anywhere in the story, but all must appear
        !           109: .PD
        !           110: .PP
        !           111: Combinations
        !           112: are allowed, e.g.\&
        !           113: .L " x . y, z"
        !           114: specifies
        !           115: .L y
        !           116: and
        !           117: .L z
        !           118: in the same sentence and
        !           119: .L x
        !           120: somewhere in the same story.
        !           121: The character 
        !           122: .L !
        !           123: means not, so that
        !           124: .L !chocolate chip
        !           125: means
        !           126: .L chip
        !           127: not preceded by
        !           128: .LR chocolate .
        !           129: Some suffixes are removed; and
        !           130: capitals are ignored except when entire words are
        !           131: capitalized.
        !           132: Thus
        !           133: .L ERA
        !           134: and
        !           135: .L era
        !           136: are distinguished, but
        !           137: .L Waters
        !           138: and
        !           139: .L waters
        !           140: are not.
        !           141: Special `words' specify story types:
        !           142: .TP
        !           143: .B #f
        !           144: flash
        !           145: .PD0
        !           146: .TP
        !           147: .B #b
        !           148: bulletin
        !           149: .TP
        !           150: .B #u
        !           151: urgent news
        !           152: .TP
        !           153: .B #r
        !           154: regular news
        !           155: .TP
        !           156: .B #d
        !           157: deferred news
        !           158: .PD
        !           159: .SH EXAMPLES
        !           160: .EX
        !           161: *S > stuff
        !           162: bell laboratories
        !           163: FCC . telephone, regulation
        !           164: *P | mail joe
        !           165: #b
        !           166: AM-NewsDigest
        !           167: .EE
        !           168: .SH FILES
        !           169: .F ap.keys
        !           170: .br
        !           171: .F /usr/spool/ap/*
        !           172: .SH BUGS
        !           173: .I Apnews
        !           174: can fail to work well in a
        !           175: .IR mux (9.1)
        !           176: window, for two reasons.
        !           177: .br
        !           178: (1) The window needs a terminal emulator.
        !           179: Before invoking 
        !           180: .I apnews,
        !           181: do 
        !           182: .L "exec term 5620"
        !           183: (or
        !           184: .BR 2621 );
        !           185: see
        !           186: .IR term (9.1).
        !           187: .br
        !           188: (2) Remote execution needs a transparent connection.
        !           189: If logged in elsewhere make the connection to the serving machine by doing, for example,
        !           190: .L "ndcon alice
        !           191: or
        !           192: .LR "nrx alice apnews" 
        !           193: (after downloading an emulator, if 
        !           194: necessary);
        !           195: see
        !           196: .IR dcon (1).

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