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.TH SENDNEWS 8 "January 17, 1986"
.ds ]W  Version B 2.10.3
.SH NAME
sendnews \- send news articles via mail
.SH SYNOPSIS
.BR sendnews " ["
.BR \-o " ] ["
.BR \-a " ] ["
.BR \-b " ] ["
.BI \-n " newsgroups"
.RI "] " destination
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I 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
.IR destination .
.PP
An
.Ch N
is prepended to each line for decoding by
.IR uurec (1).
.PP
The
.B \-o
flag handles old format articles.
.PP
The
.B \-a
flag is used for sending articles via the ARPANET.
It maps the article's path from
.IB uucphost ! xxx
to
.IB xxx @ arpahost\fR.\fP
.PP
The
.B \-b
flag is used for sending articles via the Berknet.
It maps the article's path from
.IB uucphost ! xxx
to
.IB berkhost : xxx\fR.\fP
.PP
The
.B \-n
flag changes the article's newsgroup to the specified
.IR newsgroup .
.SH SEE ALSO
checknews(1),
inews(1),
postnews(1),
readnews(1),
vnews(1),
news(5),
recnews(8),
uurec(8)