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POSTNEWS(1) POSTNEWS(1)
¢1mNAME¢22m
postnews - simple interactive news¡posting interface
¢1mSYNOPSIS¢22m
¢1mpostnews¢22m [ ¢1m-h¢22m headerfile ] [newsgroup]
¢1mDESCRIPTION¢22m
¢4mPostnews¢24m provides a simple interactive interface for post¡
ing news. It prompts the user for the ¢4mnewsgroup¢24m 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, ¢4mpostnews¢24m gives the user a
choice between abandoning the posting or re¡editing it.
The ¢1m-h¢22m option specifies that a suitable header has already
been constructed and can be found in ¢4mheaderfile¢24m, in which
case ¢4mpostnews¢24m bypasses the initial prompting for header
contents.
¢1mFILES¢22m
/usr/lib/news/postdefltgroup default newsgroup (nonexis¡
tent means no default)
/usr/lib/news/postdefltdist default distribution (nonex¡
istent means `world')
¢1mSEE¢22m ¢1mALSO¢22m
inews(1)
¢1mHISTORY¢22m
Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.
¢1mBUGS¢22m
There are zillions of marginally¡useful features that it
could have but doesn't.
21 Nov 1990 1