.TH READCOMICS 1 "SIPB Comic Reading Utility" "SIPB" \" -*- nroff -*- .SH NAME readcomics \- view comics in newsgroups .SH SYNOPSIS .B readcomics .br .SH DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the .B readcomics application, written by Greg Hudson (a member of MIT SIPB). .B readcomics scans the newsgroups specified in ~/.comicsrc, extracts new MIME comics postings, and presents them with the viewer specified by the environment variable X_VIEWER (defaults to "xv").