August 14, 1996; Ronald Florence
This file is in the public domain.
This program posts a news article to Usenet. Given an optional
argument of the name of a file containing a news article, or an
argument of "-" and a news article via stdin, post creates a
follow-up article, with an attribution and quoted text. The
newsgroups, subject, distribution, follow-up, and quote-prefix can
optionally be specified on the command line.
usage: post [options] [article | -]
-n newsgroups
-s subject
-d distribution
-f followup-to
-p quote-prefix (default ` > ')
See the site & system configuration options below. On systems
posting via inews, post validates newsgroups and distributions in
the `active' and `distributions' files in the news library directory.
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Bugs: Newsgroup validation assumes the `active' file is sorted.
Non-UNIX sites need hardcoded system information.
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