PNEWS(1) General Commands Manual 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 sev- eral questions, then allow you to enter your article, and then post it us- ing the inews(1) program. If you type h and a carriage return at any point, Pnews will tell you what it wants to know. If you put a .signature file in your home directory, your inews program will usually append it to your message after you are done editing it. If you prefer to see your signature while you are editing, rename your .signa- ture file to be .news_sig and it will be appended before you begin to edit. Note that .news_sig obeys the setting of DOTDIR, but .signature may not, since it is out of Pnews's control. If both .news_sig and .signature exist you'll get two signatures appended. The -h form is used when invoked from trn or 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 vari- able to change the header file that [t]rn passes to Pnews. ENVIRONMENT AUTHORCOPY If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished arti- cle will be appended. Default: article not saved DOTDIR Where to find your dot files, if they aren't in your home direc- tory. 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". NAME Your full name. Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname. NEWSORG Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file con- taining the name of your organization. (For use at organizations where the ORGANIZATION environmental variable is in use for other purposes). If both NEWSORG and ORGANIZATION are set, NEWSORG will override ORGANIZATION. ORGANIZATION Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file con- taining the name of your organization. Default: whatever your news administrator chose. REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to insert into your mes- sage. Default: header line not inserted. USER Your login name. Default: $LOGNAME VISUAL The editor you want to use. Default: $EDITOR FILES $DOTDIR/.article $DOTDIR/.news_sig ~/dead.article SEE ALSO trn(1), rn(1), Rnmail(1), inews(1) DIAGNOSTICS BUGS Not the speediest program in the world, but maybe that's a blessing to the net. LOCAL PNEWS(1)
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