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POSTNEWS(1) POSTNEWS(1)
1mNAME22m
postnews - simple interactive newsposting interface
1mSYNOPSIS22m
1mpostnews22m [ 1m-h22m headerfile ] [newsgroup]
1mDESCRIPTION22m
4mPostnews24m provides a simple interactive interface for post
ing news. It prompts the user for the 4mnewsgroup24m 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, 4mpostnews24m gives the user a
choice between abandoning the posting or reediting it.
The 1m-h22m option specifies that a suitable header has already
been constructed and can be found in 4mheaderfile24m, in which
case 4mpostnews24m bypasses the initial prompting for header
contents.
1mFILES22m
/usr/lib/news/postdefltgroup default newsgroup (nonexis
tent means no default)
/usr/lib/news/postdefltdist default distribution (nonex
istent means `world')
1mSEE22m 1mALSO22m
inews(1)
1mHISTORY22m
Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.
1mBUGS22m
There are zillions of marginallyuseful features that it
could have but doesn't.
21 Nov 1990 1