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The news feed page[s] were not laid out well. Two pages, disjointed information, hard to figure out how to use the optional parameters...

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news Print news items
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Port Added: 2012-02-16 18:06:35
Last Update: 2014-09-02 10:07:50
SVN Revision: 366980
People watching this port, also watch:: python, unoconv, py39-pycparser, sysinfo
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Description:
Introduction News is used to read and maintain news relevant to a local system. Typically it is run from the .login script so it can automatically check for any new news items. If it finds any, it will report, "You have news: item1 item2 etc..." To read the news, simply type "news". Note, you may wish to type "news | more" in case the news is too long to fit on a single screen. For complete information on the program, see the man page. Administration To add news items to your system, simply copy a text file containing the information to the news directory. (This directory defaults to /var/news, but can be changed in the Makefile or through the environment variable, NEWS_PATH)
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1.2
02 Sep 2014 10:07:50
Revision:366980Original commit files touched by this commit		 bapt search for other commits by this committer 
Remove non staged ports without pending PR from s*
1.2
06 Jul 2014 15:52:25
Revision:360930Original commit files touched by this commit		 bapt search for other commits by this committer 
Resetting maintainership on ports that have not been staged and without any
pending PR (related to stage)

With hat:	portmgr
1.2
20 Sep 2013 23:06:00
Revision:327772Original commit files touched by this commit		 bapt search for other commits by this committer 
Add NO_STAGE all over the place in preparation for the staging support (cat:
sysutils)
1.2
16 Feb 2012 18:06:06
Original commit files touched by this commit		 jgh search for other commits by this committer 
Add new port: (sysutils/news)

News is used to read and maintain news relevant to a local system.
Typically it is run from the .login script so it can automatically
check for any new news items.  If it finds any, it will report,
"You have news:  item1 item2 etc..."

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PR: ports/164456
Submitted by:   Hokan <hokan at me.umn.edu>

Number of commits found: 4
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