3 newt \- network news transport protocol (NNTP) client
18 provides an interactive, text-based interface to NNTP
22 There are a number of options:
25 Load the specified newsgroup. Default is
31 is mounted. Default is
35 Number of posts to display, up to and including the most recent post.
38 starts by reading the list of messages in the
40 printing out the number of messages, and then prompting for commands
41 from standard input. The prompt itself presents the name of the group
42 and the message number in the form of a file system path relative to the
53 Print the previous message.
56 Enter a new message, honoring the environment variable
62 Jump to the first message in the group.
65 Change to the specified
67 The name of a group may be provided in dotted
68 (\fIalt.test\fR) or path (\fIalt/test\fR) format.
71 Print the disposition, date, sender and subject line
72 of all messages in the group. These lines are suitable
73 for selecting and sending to the prompt, in order to
74 print messages either singly or in aggregate.
77 Print a summary of the available commands.
82 walks the directories under the current group
83 and prints commands suitable for changing to each
84 available sub-group. When provided with an argument,
85 it instead walks the directories under the group specified
90 .B $home/lib/newsgroups
93 and prints commands suitable for changing to each match.
96 Jump to the last message in the group.
99 Print the next message.
102 Print the current message with minimal headers.
105 Print the raw message with full headers.
111 Reply to the current message.
114 Synchronize message list with the server.
119 with the message body as standard input.
124 with the whole message as standard input.
127 Print the current message in quoted form, suitable for reply.
129 .B $home/lib/newsgroups
130 list of newsgroups, one per line
136 The list of available newsgroups offered by a given server
137 may be quite large. This complicates walking the list over
138 a slow Internet connection, and renders searching in real-time
139 all but infeasible. Grepping a pre-generated
141 file is a compromise.
144 first appeared in 9front (April, 2014).