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NAME
post - news poster
SYNOPSIS
post [ -n newsgroups ] [ -s subject ] [ -d distribution ] [ -f fol-
lowup-to ] [ -p quote-prefix ] [ - | news-article ]
DESCRIPTION
Post posts a news article to Usenet via inews, uux, or mail. Given an
optional argument of the name of a file(1,n) containing a news article, or
an argument of `-' and a news article via stdin, post creates a follow-
up article, with an attribution and quoted text. Post can be invoked
as a filter(1,3x,3x curs_util) from a newsreader: `|post -' would create a followup arti-
cle to the current article in(1,8) the newsreader. The newsgroups, subject,
distribution, follow-up, and quote-prefix (the default is ` > ') can be
specified on the command line.
Post is compatible with C-News, B-news, and bsnews (Bootstrap News).
On systems with inews, the newsgroups and distribution are validated in(1,8)
the appropriate news system files.
ENVIRONMENT
The environment variable EDITOR overrides the default editor. ORGANI-
ZATION overrides the file(1,n) /usr/lib/news/organization to specify an
optional Organization header. On non-UnixTM systems, the environment
variable HOST may be used to override the Icon keyword &host(1,5) as the
sitename.
BUGS
The code to validate newsgroups assumes the file(1,n) /usr/lib/news/active
is sorted.
AUTHOR
Ronald Florence (ron@mlfarm.com). The code to generate a temporary
file(1,n) name is from Richard Goerwitz (goer@sophist.uchicago.edu).
Options.icn is from the Icon Program Library.
2 Oct 1991 POST(LOCAL)