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PNEWS(1)							      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
       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.

       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
       .signature  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	 NEWS‐
       POSTER  as  "Pnews  -h  %h %A".	You can also modify the the NEWSHEADER
       environment variable 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
	       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".

       NAME    Your full name.

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

       NEWSORG Either  the  name  of  your organization, or the name of a file
	       containing the name of your organization. (For use at organiza‐
	       tions  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
	       containing the name of your organization.

	       Default: whatever your news administrator chose.

       REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to insert  into  your
	       message.

	       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.

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