straw1

Usage

Overview

This manual page documents briefly straw. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

straw is a program that will download a number of RSS files from the Internet, and display them in an easy-to-read manner. RSS files are typically used to display headlines in news sites and to display entries in a individuals diary.

Examples

Example RSS URLs are:

http://www.helsinki.fi/~pakaste/blog/flav_rss/index.html

Author of Straw's Blog

http://www.kuro5hin.org/backend.rdf

Kuro5hin - Technology News and Culture

http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rdf

Slashdot - News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters

http://www.securityfocus.com/topnews-rss.html

SecurityFocus - Security News