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You have three options for posting news to a Usenet
newsgroup. You can follow-up to an existing post, create a
new post from within your newsreader ('rn', 'trn', 'tin' or
'xrn'), or you can use the 'postnews' utility from the system
prompt.
To post from the Unix system prompt, just type:
Pnews
and follow the directions. You'll be asked what group you
wish to post to, subject, distribution (how widely do you
want to propigate the article), whether you're sure you want
to do this, and lastly if you wish to include a pre-written
file. If you don't have a file pre-written, just press Enter
and you'll be placed in whatever editor is you default editor
(on WAM it's 'vi', on Glue it's 'emacs').
If you enter a filename at the prompt asking about the
pre-written file, you'll then be placed im- mediately at the
send/edit/abort prompt. (If you want to double-check your
post, you'll need to choose edit to get into the post.) If
you do edit the post, when done exit the editor as you would
normally.
After that you'll be at a prompt giving you the choice of
sending, editing or cancelling the post. Choose the first
letter of the action you want to do. If you are ready to send
the post out, just type "" and soon you'll get the system
prompt again.
To post from either 'trn' or 'rn' you can refer to the OIT
handout #5, " the rn Program" (available in Room 1400, Computer
and Space Science, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.
). (The 'trn' program is just a
superset of the 'rn' program, and when you run 'rn' you're
actually calling 'trn' in 'rn' mode.) On pages 5-7 it
explains how to follow-up to an article and how to post an
original article. Also, if you type "?" at any point while in
'rn' or 'trn' you will get the screens of help commands; look
for the "" and "" commands, as well as the "$" command. To
post a follow-up to an existing article, choose either "" or
"" at the end of the article and answer the questions (which
will be similar to the ones asked by 'postnews' above). If
you wish to post an original article, press "$" in any
newsgroup, taking you to the end, then use "" to start a new
article. (At this point, "" and "" are the same, since
there's no previous article to follow-up to.)
To post from 'tin' at the article level (while reading in a
group), you can either use 'w' to post an article or use 'f'
or 'F' to follow-up to the current article ("" = copy text).
To get a list of commands available, type 'h' at any point in
'tin'.
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