NAME
     Pnews - a program for posting news articles

SYNOPSIS
     Pnews newsgroup title
       or
     Pnews -h headerfile [oldarticle]
       or
     Pnews

DESCRIPTION
     Pnews is a friendly interface for posting news articles.  It
     will  ask  several  questions,  then allow you to enter your
     article, and then post it using the  inews(1)  program.   If
     you  type  h  and a carriage return at any point, Pnews will
     tell you what it wants to know.

     If you put a .signature file in your  home  directory,  your
     inews  program  will usually append it to your message after
     you are done editing it.  If you prefer to see  your  signa-
     ture  while  you are editing, rename your .signature file to
     be .news_sig and it will be appended  before  you  begin  to
     edit.   Note that .news_sig obeys the setting of DOTDIR, but
     .signature does not (since it is out of Pnew's control).  If
     both  .news_sig  and  .signature exist you'll get two signa-
     tures appended.

     The -h form is used when invoked from trn or  rn.   If  your
     editor  can edit multiple files, and you want the article to
     which you are replying to show  up  as  an  alternate  file,
     define  the  environment variable NEWSPOSTER as "Pnews -h %h
     %A".  You can also modify  the  the  NEWSHEADER  environment
     variable  to  change  the  header  file that [t]rn passes to
     Pnews.

ENVIRONMENT
     AUTHORCOPY
             If defined, contains the name of a file to which the
             finished article will be appended.

             Default: article not saved

     DOTDIR  Where to find your dot files, if they aren't in your
             home  directory.   This  is  primarily  for accounts
             which are shared by more than one person.

             Default: $HOME

     EDITOR  The editor you want to use, if VISUAL is undefined.

             Default: whatever your news administrator installed,
             usually vi.

     HOME    Your home directory.

             Default: $LOGDIR

     LOGDIR  Your home directory if HOME is undefined.

     LOGNAME Your login name, if USER is undefined.

             Default: value of "whoami".

     NAME    Your full name.

             Default: name from /etc/passwd, or ~/.fullname.

     NEWSORG Either the name of your organization, or the name of
             a  file  containing  the  name of your organization.
             (For use at  organizations  where  the  ORGANIZATION
             environmental  variable  is  in  use  for other pur-
             poses). If both NEWSORG and  ORGANIZATION  are  set,
             NEWSORG will override ORGANIZATION.

     ORGANIZATION
             Either the name of your organization, or the name of
             a file containing the name of your organization.

             Default: whatever your news administrator chose.

     REPLYTO The contents of a "Reply-To:" header line to  insert
             into your message.

             Default: header line not inserted.

     USER    Your login name.

             Default: $LOGNAME

     VISUAL  The editor you want to use.

             Default: $EDITOR

FILES
     $DOTDIR/.article
     $DOTDIR/.news_sig
     ~/dead.article

SEE ALSO
     trn(1), rn(1), Rnmail(1), inews(1)

DIAGNOSTICS
BUGS
     Not the speediest program in the world, but maybe  that's  a
     blessing to the net.