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                     20: .Dd July 24, 1990
                     21: .Dt SENDBUG 1
                     22: .Os BSD 4.2
                     23: .Sh NAME
                     24: .Nm sendbug
                     25: .Nd mail a system bug report to 4bsd-bugs
                     26: .Sh SYNOPSIS
                     27: .Nm sendbug
                     28: .Op Ar address
                     29: .Sh DESCRIPTION
                     30: Bug reports sent to `[email protected]' are intercepted
                     31: by a program which expects bug reports to conform to a standard format.
                     32: .Nm Sendbug
                     33: is a shell script to help the user compose and mail bug reports
                     34: in the correct format.
                     35: .Nm Sendbug
                     36: works by invoking the editor specified by the environment variable
                     37: .Ev EDITOR
                     38: on a temporary copy of the bug report format outline. The user must fill in the
                     39: appropriate fields and exit the editor.
                     40: .Nm Sendbug
                     41: then mails the completed report to `[email protected]' or the
                     42: .Ar address
                     43: specified on the command line.
                     44: .Sh ENVIRONMENT
                     45: .Nm Sendbug
                     46: will utilize the following environment variable if it exists:
                     47: .Tw Fl
                     48: .Tp Ev EDITOR
                     49: Specifies the preferred editor. If
                     50: .Ev EDITOR
                     51: is not set,
                     52: .Nm
                     53: defaults to
                     54: .Xr vi 1 .
                     55: .Tp
                     56: .Sh FILES
                     57: .Dw /usr/share/misc/bugformat
                     58: .Di L
                     59: .Dp Pa /usr/share/misc/bugformat
                     60: contains the bug report outline
                     61: .Dp
                     62: .Sh SEE ALSO
                     63: .Xr vi 1 ,
                     64: .Xr environ 7 ,
                     65: .Xr bugfiler 8 ,
                     66: .Xr sendmail 8
                     67: .Sh HISTORY
                     68: .Nm Sendbug
                     69: appeared in 4.2 BSD.

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