POSTNEWS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 9 June 1989
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NAME

postnews - simple interactive news-posting interface

SYNOPSIS

postnews [newsgroup]

DESCRIPTION

Postnews provides a simple interactive interface for posting news. It prompts the user for the newsgroup if it is not given as an argument (more than one group can be given, with groups separated by commas but no white space), prompts for the article's subject, drops the user into his choice of text editor with a prototype article, checks (when the editor terminates) that the article has been edited reasonably, and then posts it.

If the article has not been written out from the editor, or if the editing instructions in the prototype do not appear to have been followed, postnews gives the user a choice between abandoning the posting or re-editing it.

FILES

/usr/lib/news/postdefltgroup default newsgroup (nonexistent means no default)

/usr/lib/news/postdefltdist default distribution (nonexistent means `world')

HISTORY

Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.

BUGS

There are zillions of marginally-useful features that it could have but doesn't.

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