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17 .TH NOOSE 1 "22 Apr 2001" ""
19 noose \- a command-line NNTP tool
22 [\fIOPTION\fR]... <\fICOMMAND\fR>
26 is a command-line tool which can check for new posts
27 on a news server, via NNTP, in the groups to which one is subscribed, or
28 read articles by article-number.
32 Be less verbose in output. This is most commonly used to make the \fBcheck\fR
33 command only output groups with non-zero unread messages present.
36 Be more verbose in output.
38 \fB\-n\fR \fIserver\fR
39 Use \fIserver\fR as the NNTP server. By default, the value of the
40 environment variable NNTPSERVER is used, and if it is not present,
43 \fB\-r\fR \fIrcfile\fR
44 Use \fIrcfile\fR as the newsrc file. This is only necessary when using
45 the \fBcheck\fR command. By default, $HOME/.jnewsrc and $HOME/.newsrc
46 will be tried, in that order.
49 \fBcheck\fR [\fIgroup\fR]
50 Returns how many unread posts are in all subscribed groups, or just
51 \fIgroup\fR, if specified.
53 \fBread\fR [\fIgroup\fR] <\fIn\fR>
54 Grab the entirity of article \fIn\fR from \fIgroup\fR.
56 Julian Squires <tek@wiw.org>