POSTNEWS(1)               UNIX System V(21 Nov 1990)                POSTNEWS(1)


NAME
      postnews - simple interactive news-posting interface

SYNOPSIS
      postnews [ -h headerfile ] [newsgroup]

DESCRIPTION
      Postnews provides a simple interactive interface for posting news.  It
      prompts the user for the newsgroup 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, postnews gives the user a choice between abandoning the posting
      or re-editing it.

      The -h option specifies that a suitable header has already been
      constructed and can be found in headerfile, in which case postnews
      bypasses the initial prompting for header contents.

FILES
      /usr/dell/cnews/lib/postdefltgroup  default newsgroup (nonexistent means
      no default)
      /usr/dell/cnews/lib/postdefltdist   default distribution (nonexistent
      means `world')

SEE ALSO
      inews(1)

HISTORY
      Written at U of Toronto by Henry Spencer.

BUGS
      There are zillions of marginally-useful features that it could have but
      doesn't.















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