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POSTNEWS(1) USER COMMANDS POSTNEWS(1)
NNNNAAAAMMMMEEEE
postnews - simple interactive news-posting interface
SSSSYYYYNNNNOOOOPPPPSSSSIIIISSSS
ppppoooossssttttnnnneeeewwwwssss [ ----hhhh headerfile ] [newsgroup]
DDDDEEEESSSSCCCCRRRRIIIIPPPPTTTTIIIIOOOONNNN
_P_o_s_t_n_e_w_s provides a simple interactive interface for posting
news. It prompts the user for the _n_e_w_s_g_r_o_u_p 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 edi-
tor 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, _p_o_s_t_n_e_w_s gives the user a choice
between abandoning the posting or re-editing it.
The ----hhhh option specifies that a suitable header has already
been constructed and can be found in _h_e_a_d_e_r_f_i_l_e, in which
case _p_o_s_t_n_e_w_s bypasses the initial prompting for header con-
tents.
FFFFIIIILLLLEEEESSSS
/usr/lib/news/postdefltgroup default newsgroup (nonexistent
means no default)
/usr/lib/news/postdefltdist default distribution (nonex-
istent means `world')
SSSSEEEEEEEE AAAALLLLSSSSOOOO
inews(1)
HHHHIIIISSSSTTTTOOOORRRRYYYY
Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.
BBBBUUUUGGGGSSSS
There are zillions of marginally-useful features that it
could have but doesn't.
Sun Microsystems Last change: 21 Nov 1990 1