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1.1       root        1: .TH APNEWS 1 
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: apnews \- present recent AP wire stories
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B apnews
                      6: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      7: .I Apnews
                      8: is designed to skim the current news on the AP wire.
                      9: On a video terminal, it presents a top half screen of twenty
                     10: story slugs (two-word labels); typing the number of one of
                     11: these slugs displays the first ten lines of the story
                     12: on the bottom half screen.
                     13: Successive ten line pages of the story are obtained
                     14: by hitting carriage return.
                     15: Successive twenty slug top half pages are obtained
                     16: by hitting \fBm\fR
                     17: (if you aren't reading a story, carriage return will do).
                     18: You can return to the current top half page with
                     19: \fB\&.\fR, or to the first top half page with \fBt\fR.
                     20: .PP
                     21: If you type
                     22: \fBs\fI keywords\fR
                     23: a search through today's stories is done for stories
                     24: with those words; a menu of such stories is presented.
                     25: You can use the story now being displayed as a source
                     26: of keywords by typing \fBy\fR.
                     27: .PP
                     28: To get a copy of a story you are reading in your own
                     29: file space, type
                     30: \fBc\fI xyz\fR which will
                     31: copy the story to file or directory \fIxyz\fR
                     32: (appending if \fIxyz\fR is a file and not empty).
                     33: The command '?' prints some help.
                     34: .SH FILES
                     35: /data/ap
                     36: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     37: ap.keys(5)
                     38: .SH BUGS
                     39: These are left as an exercise for the reader.  Please report to mel.

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