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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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