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PNEWS(1) USER COMMANDS PNEWS(1)
NAME
Pnews - a program for posting news articles
SYNOPSIS
Pnews newsgroup title
or
Pnews -h headerfile [oldarticle]
or
Pnews
DESCRIPTION
Pnews is a friendly interface for posting news articles. It
will ask several questions, then allow you to enter your
article, and then post it using the inews(1) program. If
you type h and a carriage return at any point, Pnews will
tell you what it wants to know.
The -h form is used when invoked from rn. If your editor
can edit multiple files, and you want the article to which
you are replying to show up as an alternate file, define the
environment variable NEWSPOSTER as "Pnews -h %h %A". You
can also modify the the NEWSHEADER environment variable to
change the header file that rn passes to Pnews.
ENVIRONMENT
AUTHORCOPY
If defined, contains the name of a file to which the
finished article will be appended.
Default: article not saved
DOTDIR Where to find your dot files, if they aren't in your
home directory. This is primarily for accounts
which are shared by more than one person.
Default: $HOME
EDITOR The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.
Default: whatever your news administrator installed,
usually vi.
HOME Your home directory.
Default: $LOGDIR
LOGDIR Your home directory if HOME is undefined.
LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined.
Default: value of "whoami".
Sun Release 4.1 Last change: LOCAL 1
PNEWS(1) USER COMMANDS PNEWS(1)
NAME Your full name.
Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname.
NEWSORG Either the name of your organization, or the name of
a file containing the name of your organization.
(For use at organizations where the ORGANIZATION
environmental variable is in use for other pur-
poses). If both NEWSORG and ORGANIZATION are set,
NEWSORG will override ORGANIZATION.
ORGANIZATION
Either the name of your organization, or the name of
a file containing the name of your organization.
Default: whatever your news administrator chose.
REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to insert
into your message.
Default: header line not inserted.
USER Your login name.
Default: $LOGNAME
VISUAL The editor you want to use.
Default: $EDITOR
FILES
$DOTDIR/.article
~/dead.article
SEE ALSO
rn(1), Rnmail(1), inews(1)
DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
Not the speediest program in the world, but maybe that's a
blessing to the net.
Sun Release 4.1 Last change: LOCAL 2