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1.1 root 1: .TH INEWS 1
2: .SH NAME
3: inews \- submit news articles
4: .SH SYNOPSIS
5: .B inews
6: [
7: .B \-h
8: ]
9: .B \-t
10: .IR title " [ "
11: .B \-n
12: .IR newsgroups " ] [ "
13: .B \-e
14: .IR "expiration date" " ]"
15: .PP
16: .B "inews \-p"
17: .RI " [ " filename " ] "
18: .PP
19: .BI "inews \-C " newsgroup
20: .SH DESCRIPTION
21: .I Inews
22: submits news articles to the USENET news
23: network.
24: It is intended as a raw interface, not as a human user interface.
25: Casual users should probably use
26: .IR postnews (1)
27: instead.
28: .PP
29: The first form is for submitting user articles.
30: The body will be read from the standard
31: input. A
32: .I title
33: must be specified as there is no default. Each article
34: belongs to a list of newsgroups. If the
35: .B \-n
36: flag is omitted, the list
37: will default to something line
38: .IR general .
39: (On ours, it is
40: .IR general .)
41: If you wish to submit
42: an article in multiple newsgroups, the
43: .I newsgroups
44: must be separated by commas and/or spaces.
45: If not specified, the expiration date will be
46: set to the local default.
47: The
48: .B \-f
49: flag specifies the article's sender. Without this flag, the sender
50: defaults to the user's name.
51: If
52: .B \-f
53: is specified, the real sender's name will be included as a Sender line.
54: The
55: .B \-h
56: flag specifies that headers are present at the beginning of the
57: article, and these headers should be included with the article
58: header instead of as text.
59: (This mechanism can be used to edit headers and supply additional
60: nondefault headers, but not to specify certain information,
61: such as the sender and article ID, that inews itself generates.)
62: .LP
63: When posting an article, the environment is checked for
64: information about the sender.
65: If NAME is found, its value is used for the full name,
66: rather than the system value (often in /etc/passwd).
67: This is useful if the system value cannot be set, or when
68: more than one person uses the same login.
69: If ORGANIZATION is found, the value overrides the system
70: default organization.
71: This is useful when a person uses a guest login and is
72: not primarily associated with the organization owning the machine.
73: .LP
74: The second form is used for receiving articles from other machines.
75: If
76: .I filename
77: is given, the article will be read from the specified file; otherwise
78: the article will be read from the standard input. An expiration date
79: need not be present and a receival date, if present, will be ignored.
80: .LP
81: After local installation, inews will transmit the article to all systems
82: that subscribe to the newsgroups that the article belongs to.
83: .LP
84: The third form is for creating new newsgroups. On some systems, this may
85: be limited to specific users such as the super-user or news administrator.
86: (This happens on ours.)
87: .LP
88: If the file /usr/lib/news/recording is present, it is taken as a list of
89: "recordings" to be shown to users posting news.
90: (This is by analogy to the recording you hear when you dial information
91: in some parts of the country, asking you if you really wanted to do this.)
92: The file contains lines of the form:
93: .br
94: newsgroups <tab> filename
95: .br
96: for example:
97: .br
98: net.all net.recording
99: fa.all fa.recording
100: .br
101: Any user posting an article to a newsgroup matching the pattern on
102: the left will be shown the contents of the file on the right.
103: The file is found in the LIB directory (often /usr/lib/news).
104: The user is then told to hit DEL to abort or RETURN to proceed.
105: The intent of this feature is to help companies keep proprietary
106: information from accidently leaking out.
107: .SH FILES
108: .PD 0
109: .TP 25
110: /usr/spool/news/.sys.nnn
111: temporary articles
112: .TP 25
113: .RI /usr/spool/news/ newsgroups / article_no.
114: Articles
115: .TP 25
116: /usr/spool/oldnews/
117: Expired articles
118: .TP 25
119: /usr/lib/news/active
120: List of known newsgroups and highest local article numbers in each.
121: .TP 25
122: /usr/lib/news/seq
123: Sequence number of last article
124: .TP 25
125: /usr/lib/news/history
126: List of all articles ever seen
127: .TP 25
128: /usr/lib/news/sys
129: System subscription list
130: .PD
131: .SH "SEE ALSO"
132: Mail(1),
133: binmail(1),
134: getdate(3),
135: msgs(1),
136: news(5),
137: newsrc(5),
138: postnews(1),
139: readnews(1),
140: recnews(1),
141: sendnews(8),
142: uucp(1),
143: uurec(8),
144: .SH AUTHORS
145: Matt Glickman
146: .br
147: Mark Horton
148: .br
149: Stephen Daniel
150: .br
151: Tom R. Truscott
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