Date : Fri, 01 Jul 1983 12:10:16-PDT (Fri)
From : hplabs!hao!seismo!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!vax135!ariel!hou5f!hou5a!hou5d!hogpc!hsc@ucb-vax
Subject: Kaypro as UNIX terminal
INEWS(1) UNIX 5.0 INEWS(1)
NAME
inews - submit news articles
SYNOPSIS
inews -t _t_i_t_l_e [ -n _n_e_w_s_g_r_o_u_p_s ] [ -e
_e_x_p_i_r_a_t_i_o_n _d_a_t_e ]
inews -p [ _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e ]
inews -C _n_e_w_s_g_r_o_u_p
DESCRIPTION
_I_n_e_w_s submits news articles to the USENET news network. The
first form is for submitting user articles. The body will be
read from the standard input. A _t_i_t_l_e must be specified as there
is no default. Each article belongs to a list of newsgroups. If
the -n flag is omitted, the list will default to something line
_g_e_n_e_r_a_l. (On ours, it is _g_e_n_e_r_a_l.)
If you wish to submit an
article in multiple newsgroups, the _n_e_w_s_g_r_o_u_p_s must
be separated
by commas and/or spaces. If not specified, the expiration date
will be set to the local default. The -f flag specifies the
article's sender. Without this flag, the sender defaults to the
user's name.
The second form is used for receiving articles from other
machines. If _f_i_l_e_n_a_m_e 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.
After local installation, inews will transmit the article to all
systems that subscribe to the newsgroups that the article belongs
to.
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.)
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:
newsgroups <tab> filename
for example:
net.all /usr/lib/news/net.recording
fa.all /usr/lib/news/fa.recording
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 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.
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FILES
/usr/spool/news/.sys.nnn temporary articles
/usr/spool/news/_n_e_w_s_g_r_o_u_p_s/_a_r_t_i_c_l_e__n_o.
Articles
/usr/spool/news/.canned Canceled articles
/usr/lib/news/ngfile List of legal newsgroups
/usr/lib/news/seq Sequence number of last article
/usr/lib/news/history List of all articles ever seen
/usr/lib/news/sys System subscription list
SEE ALSO
Mail(1), binmail(1), getdate(3), msgs(1), news(5), newsrc(5)
readnews(1), recnews(1), sendnews(8), uucp(1), uurec(8),
AUTHORS
Matt Glickman
Mark Horton
Stephen Daniel
Tom R. Truscott
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