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1.1       root        1: .TH INEWS 8
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: inews \- submit news articles
                      4: .SH SYNOPSIS
                      5: .B inews
                      6: [
                      7: .B \-h
                      8: ]
                      9: .B \-t
                     10: title [
                     11: .B \-n 
                     12: newsgroup ... ] [
                     13: .B \-e 
                     14: expiration ]
                     15: .PP
                     16: .B inews \-p
                     17: [ file ]
                     18: .PP
                     19: .B inews \-C
                     20: newsgroup
                     21: .SH DESCRIPTION
                     22: .I Inews
                     23: submits netnews articles.
                     24: It is not intended for people; see
                     25: .IR postnews (1)
                     26: for routine use.
                     27: The first form is for submitting articles;
                     28: the second for receiving articles from other machines;
                     29: the third for creating newsgroups.
                     30: .PP
                     31: In the first form, the article is read from the standard input.
                     32: A
                     33: .I title
                     34: must be specified, one or more
                     35: .I newsgroups 
                     36: (default `general')
                     37: may be specified, and a nonstandard 
                     38: .I expiration 
                     39: date may be specified.
                     40: Option
                     41: .B \-f
                     42: substitutes another sender's name instead of the user.
                     43: Option
                     44: .B \-h
                     45: specifies that headers are present at the beginning of the
                     46: article and should be included with the article
                     47: header instead of as text.
                     48: .PP
                     49: The sender's full name is taken from the environment variable NAME,
                     50: or from the system index (often 
                     51: .IR passwd (5)).
                     52: The environment variable ORGANIZATION overrides the system default.
                     53: .PP
                     54: In the second form
                     55: .I inews
                     56: reads the article from the named
                     57: .I file.
                     58: .PP
                     59: The third form is for creating new newsgroups.
                     60: This may
                     61: be limited to specific users such as the super-user or news administrator.
                     62: .SH FILES
                     63: .PD 0
                     64: .TP \w'/usr/spool/news/newsgroup/article_no  'u
                     65: /usr/spool/news/.sys.nnn
                     66: temporary articles
                     67: .TP 
                     68: .RI /usr/spool/news/ newsgroup / article_no
                     69: articles
                     70: .TP 
                     71: /usr/spool/oldnews/
                     72: expired articles
                     73: .TP 
                     74: /usr/lib/news/active
                     75: known newsgroups and highest article number in each
                     76: .TP 
                     77: /usr/lib/news/seq
                     78: sequence number of last article
                     79: .TP 
                     80: /usr/lib/news/history
                     81: list of all articles ever seen
                     82: .TP 
                     83: /usr/lib/news/sys
                     84: system subscription list
                     85: .PD
                     86: .SH "SEE ALSO"
                     87: news(5),
                     88: newsrc(5),
                     89: postnews(1),
                     90: readnews(1),
                     91: recnews(8),
                     92: sendnews(8)
                     93: uurec(8)

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