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Command: postnews | Section: 7 | Source: UNIX v10 | File: postnews.7
POSTNEWS(7) Miscellaneous Information Manual POSTNEWS(7)
NAME
postnews - submit netnews articles
SYNOPSIS
postnews [ file ]
DESCRIPTION
Postnews submits the file as a readnews(7) article. It prompts for ti-
tle, primary newsgroup, and other newsgroup distribution. Good manners
decree an informative title and accurate, minimal, distribution.
The names of newsgroups are relative pathnames of directories depending
from with slashes replaced by dots.
If no file is specified, postnews invokes an editor specified by the
environment variable EDITOR (default The editor's buffer is initialized
with header information, which may be changed. The text of the article
may be appended.
SEE ALSO
readnews(7)
BSD manual for more sophisticated uses, such as posting news from a
program.
BUGS
The editor default is distinctly nonclassical.
alice POSTNEWS(7)