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.
39 starts by reading the list of messages in the
41 printing out the number of messages, and then prompting for commands.
42 The prompt itself represents the name of the group followed by the
43 message number in the form of a file system path, relative to the
52 The command is applied to each message in the (optional) range.
55 The address range can be:
58 to indicate a single message header.
62 to indicate a range of contiguous message headers.
68 to indicate a particular message.
79 Print the headers for the next ten messages.
82 Enter a new message, honoring the environment variable
88 Change to the specified
90 The name of a group may be provided in dotted
91 (\fIalt.test\fR) or path (\fIalt/test\fR) format.
94 Print the disposition, date, sender and subject line
95 of the message. These lines are suitable for selecting
96 and sending to the prompt, in order to print messages
97 either singly or in aggregate.
100 Print a summary of the available commands.
105 walks the directories under the current group
106 and prints commands suitable for changing to each
107 available sub-group. When provided with an argument,
108 it instead walks the directories under the group specified
113 .B $home/lib/newsgroups
116 and prints commands suitable for changing to each match.
119 Print the current message with minimal headers.
122 Print the raw message with full headers.
128 Reply to the current message.
131 Synchronize message list with the server.
136 with the message body as standard input.
141 with the whole message as standard input.
144 Print the current message in quoted form, suitable for reply.
146 .B $home/lib/newsgroups
147 list of newsgroups, one per line
153 The list of available newsgroups offered by a given server
154 may be quite large. This complicates walking the list over
155 a slow Internet connection, and renders searching in real-time
156 all but infeasible. Grepping a pre-generated
158 file is a compromise.
161 first appeared in 9front (April, 2014).