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.

HOMEYour home directory.  Default: $LOGDIR

LOGDIR
Your home directory if HOME is undefined.

LOGNAME
Your login name, if USER is undefined. Default: value of “whoami”.

NAMEYour full name.  Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname.

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.

USERYour login name.  Default: $LOGNAME

VISUALThe 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. 

Sprite version 1.0  —  LOCAL