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1.1     ! root        1: .TH POSTNEWS 7 alice
        !             2: .CT 1 comm_users
        !             3: .SH NAME
        !             4: postnews \(mi submit netnews articles
        !             5: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             6: .B postnews
        !             7: [
        !             8: .I file
        !             9: ]
        !            10: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            11: .I Postnews
        !            12: submits the
        !            13: .I file
        !            14: as a
        !            15: .IR readnews (7)
        !            16: article.
        !            17: It prompts for title,
        !            18: primary newsgroup, and other newsgroup distribution.
        !            19: Good manners decree an informative title and accurate, minimal,
        !            20: distribution.
        !            21: .PP
        !            22: The names of newsgroups are relative pathnames
        !            23: of directories depending from
        !            24: .FR /usr/spool/news ,
        !            25: with slashes
        !            26: replaced by dots.
        !            27: .PP
        !            28: If no file is specified,
        !            29: .I postnews
        !            30: invokes an editor specified by the environment variable
        !            31: .B EDITOR
        !            32: (default
        !            33: .LR vi ).
        !            34: The editor's buffer is initialized with header information,
        !            35: which may be changed.
        !            36: The text of the article may be appended.
        !            37: .SH "SEE ALSO"
        !            38: .IR readnews (7)
        !            39: .br
        !            40: BSD manual for more sophisticated uses,
        !            41: such as posting news from a program.
        !            42: .SH BUGS
        !            43: The editor default is distinctly nonclassical.

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