man checknews () - check for unread news
NAME
checknews - check for unread news
SYNOPSIS
checknews
DESCRIPTION
Checknews informs the user whether he has unread news. It is suitable for running from a .profile (or .login if you use a certain non-standard shell) file.
Checknews normally runs readnews(1) with the -c option. As a heuristic concession to practicality, if the user has a .rnlast file in his $HOME directory, checknews runs rn -c -s3 instead.
FILES
$HOME/.newsrc
c/active
SEE ALSO
HISTORY
Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.
BUGS
There are zillions of other news readers in the world, all with their own idiosyncratic approaches to this issue.