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NAME
newt - network news transport protocol (NNTP) client
SYNOPSIS
newt [ -f newsgroup ] [ -m mountpoint ] [ -p maxposts ]
DESCRIPTION
Newt provides an interactive, text-based interface to NNTP
articles served by nntpfs(4).
There are a number of options:
-f Load the specified newsgroup. Default is alt.test.
-m Directory where nntpfs is mounted. Default is
/mnt/news.
-p Number of posts to display, up to and including the
most recent post. Default is 30.
Newt starts by reading the list of messages in the
newsgroup, printing out the number of messages, and then
prompting for commands. The prompt itself represents the
name of the group followed by the message number in the form
of a file system path, relative to the mountpoint.
Commands, as in ed(1), are of the form `[range] command
[arguments]'. The command is applied to each message in the
(optional) range.
The address range can be:
address to indicate a single message header.
address,address
to indicate a range of contiguous message
headers.
The addresses can be:
number to indicate a particular message.
The commands are:
number
Print message number.
b Print the headers for the next ten messages.
e Enter a new message, honoring the environment variable
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editor. Default is hold(1).
g newsgroup
Change to the specified newsgroup. The name of a group
may be provided in dotted (alt.test) or path (alt/test)
format.
h Print the disposition, date, sender and subject line of
the message. These lines are suitable for selecting and
sending to the prompt, in order to print messages
either singly or in aggregate.
help Print a summary of the available commands.
k [newsgroup]
Without an argument, k walks the directories under the
current group and prints commands suitable for changing
to each available sub-group. When provided with an
argument, it instead walks the directories under the
group specified by the argument.
kf regexp
Greps $home/lib/newsgroups for regexp and prints com-
mands suitable for changing to each match.
p Print the current message with minimal headers.
P Print the raw message with full headers.
q Quit.
r Reply to the current message.
y Synchronize message list with the server.
|command
Run the command with the message body as standard
input.
||command
Run the command with the whole message as standard
input.
!command
Escape to the shell to do command.
" Print the current message in quoted form, suitable for
reply.
The environment variables $editor and $pager are honored.
FILES
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$home/lib/newsgroups list of newsgroups, one per line
SOURCE
/rc/bin/newt
SEE ALSO
nntpfs(4)
BUGS
The list of available newsgroups offered by a given server
may be quite large. This complicates walking the list over a
slow Internet connection, and renders searching in real-time
all but infeasible. Grepping a pre-generated newsgroups file
is a compromise.
HISTORY
Newt first appeared in 9front (April, 2014).
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