SENDNEWS(8)           MAINTENANCE COMMANDS            SENDNEWS(8)



NAME
     sendnews - send news articles via mail

SYNOPSIS
     sendnews [ -o ] [ -a ] [ -b ] [ -n newsgroups ] destination

DESCRIPTION
     Sendnews reads an article from its standard input,  performs
     a  set of changes to it, and gives it to the mail program to
     mail it to destination.

     An N is prepended to each line for decoding by uurec(1).

     The -o flag handles old format articles.

     The -a flag is used for sending articles  via  the  ARPANET.
     It   maps   the   article's   path   from   uucphost!xxx  to
     xxx@arpahost.

     The -b flag is used for sending articles  via  the  Berknet.
     It   maps   the   article's   path   from   uucphost!xxx  to
     berkhost:xxx.

     The -n flag changes the article's newsgroup to the specified
     newsgroup.

SEE ALSO
     checknews(1), inews(8), postnews(1), readnews(1),  vnews(1),
     news(5), recnews(8), uurec(8)


























Version B 2.11      Last change: May 26, 1986                   1