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
       NEWSPOSTER  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 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  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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