NAME

sendnews − send news articles via mail

SYNOPSIS

sendnews [ −o ] [ −a ] [ −b ] [ −n newsgroups ] destination

DESCRIPTION

sendnews reads an article from it’s 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).

OPTIONS

−o handle old format articles. 

−a used for sending articles via the ARPANET.  It maps the article’s path from uucphost!xxx to xxx@arpahost. 

−b used for sending articles via the Berknet.  It maps the article’s path from uucphost!xxx to berkhost:xxx. 

−n change the article’s newsgroup to the specified newsgroup.

SEE ALSO

inews(1), uurec(8), recnews(8), readnews(1), checknews(1)

Sun Release 1.1  —  Last change: 6 January 1984