4.3BSD/usr/contrib/rn/Pnews.1

''' $Header: Pnews.1,v 4.3.1.2 85/08/01 14:22:48 lwall Exp $
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''' $Log:	Pnews.1,v $
''' Revision 4.3.1.2  85/08/01  14:22:48  lwall
''' Added AUTHORCOPY.
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''' Revision 4.3.1.1  85/05/10  11:30:30  lwall
''' Branch for patches.
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''' Revision 4.3  85/05/01  11:33:50  lwall
''' Baseline for release with 4.3bsd.
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.TH PNEWS 1 LOCAL
.SH NAME
Pnews - a program for posting news articles
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B Pnews newsgroup title
.br
  or
.br
.B Pnews -h headerfile [oldarticle]
.br
  or
.br
.B Pnews
.SH 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,
.I Pnews
will tell you what it wants to know.
.PP
The -h form is used when invoked from
.IR 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 \*(L"Pnews -h %h %A\*(R".
You can also modify the the NEWSHEADER environment variable to change the
header file that
.I rn
passes to Pnews.
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.IP AUTHORCOPY 8
If defined, contains the name of a file to which the finished article will
be appended.
.Sp
Default: article not saved
.IP DOTDIR 8
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.
.Sp
Default: $HOME
.IP EDITOR 8
The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.
.Sp
Default: whatever your news administrator installed, usually vi.
.IP HOME 8
Your home directory.
.Sp
Default: $LOGDIR
.IP LOGDIR 8
Your home directory if HOME is undefined.
.IP LOGNAME 8
Your login name, if USER is undefined.
.Sp
Default: value of \*(L"whoami\*(R".
.IP NAME 8
Your full name.
.Sp
Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname.
.IP ORGANIZATION 8
Either the name of your organization, or the name of a file containing the
name of your organization.
.Sp
Default: whatever your news administrator chose.
.IP USER 8
Your login name.
.Sp
Default: $LOGNAME
.IP VISUAL 8
The editor you want to use.
.Sp
Default: $EDITOR
.SH FILES
$DOTDIR/.article
.br
~/dead.article
.SH SEE ALSO
rn(1), Rnmail(1), inews(1)
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
.SH BUGS
Not the speediest program in the world, but maybe that's a blessing to the
net.