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diff --git a/static/v10/man1/inews.1 b/static/v10/man1/inews.1 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..15bb55a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/v10/man1/inews.1 @@ -0,0 +1,151 @@ +.TH INEWS 1 +.SH NAME +inews \- submit news articles +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B inews +[ +.B \-h +] +.B \-t +.IR title " [ " +.B \-n +.IR newsgroups " ] [ " +.B \-e +.IR "expiration date" " ]" +.PP +.B "inews \-p" +.RI " [ " filename " ] " +.PP +.BI "inews \-C " newsgroup +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Inews +submits news articles to the USENET news +network. +It is intended as a raw interface, not as a human user interface. +Casual users should probably use +.IR postnews (1) +instead. +.PP +The first form is for submitting user articles. +The body will be read from the standard +input. A +.I title +must be specified as there is no default. Each article +belongs to a list of newsgroups. If the +.B \-n +flag is omitted, the list +will default to something line +.IR general . +(On ours, it is +.IR general .) +If you wish to submit +an article in multiple newsgroups, the +.I newsgroups +must be separated by commas and/or spaces. +If not specified, the expiration date will be +set to the local default. +The +.B \-f +flag specifies the article's sender. Without this flag, the sender +defaults to the user's name. +If +.B \-f +is specified, the real sender's name will be included as a Sender line. +The +.B \-h +flag specifies that headers are present at the beginning of the +article, and these headers should be included with the article +header instead of as text. +(This mechanism can be used to edit headers and supply additional +nondefault headers, but not to specify certain information, +such as the sender and article ID, that inews itself generates.) +.LP +When posting an article, the environment is checked for +information about the sender. +If NAME is found, its value is used for the full name, +rather than the system value (often in /etc/passwd). +This is useful if the system value cannot be set, or when +more than one person uses the same login. +If ORGANIZATION is found, the value overrides the system +default organization. +This is useful when a person uses a guest login and is +not primarily associated with the organization owning the machine. +.LP +The second form is used for receiving articles from other machines. +If +.I filename +is given, the article will be read from the specified file; otherwise +the article will be read from the standard input. An expiration date +need not be present and a receival date, if present, will be ignored. +.LP +After local installation, inews will transmit the article to all systems +that subscribe to the newsgroups that the article belongs to. +.LP +The third form is for creating new newsgroups. On some systems, this may +be limited to specific users such as the super-user or news administrator. +(This happens on ours.) +.LP +If the file /usr/lib/news/recording is present, it is taken as a list of +"recordings" to be shown to users posting news. +(This is by analogy to the recording you hear when you dial information +in some parts of the country, asking you if you really wanted to do this.) +The file contains lines of the form: +.br + newsgroups <tab> filename +.br +for example: +.br + net.all net.recording + fa.all fa.recording +.br +Any user posting an article to a newsgroup matching the pattern on +the left will be shown the contents of the file on the right. +The file is found in the LIB directory (often /usr/lib/news). +The user is then told to hit DEL to abort or RETURN to proceed. +The intent of this feature is to help companies keep proprietary +information from accidently leaking out. +.SH FILES +.PD 0 +.TP 25 +/usr/spool/news/.sys.nnn +temporary articles +.TP 25 +.RI /usr/spool/news/ newsgroups / article_no. +Articles +.TP 25 +/usr/spool/oldnews/ +Expired articles +.TP 25 +/usr/lib/news/active +List of known newsgroups and highest local article numbers in each. +.TP 25 +/usr/lib/news/seq +Sequence number of last article +.TP 25 +/usr/lib/news/history +List of all articles ever seen +.TP 25 +/usr/lib/news/sys +System subscription list +.PD +.SH "SEE ALSO" +Mail(1), +binmail(1), +getdate(3), +msgs(1), +news(5), +newsrc(5), +postnews(1), +readnews(1), +recnews(1), +sendnews(8), +uucp(1), +uurec(8), +.SH AUTHORS +Matt Glickman +.br +Mark Horton +.br +Stephen Daniel +.br +Tom R. Truscott |