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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".




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     NAME    Your 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.

     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.


























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