.TH SENDNEWS 8
.SH NAME
sendnews \- send news articles via mail
.SH SYNOPSIS
sendnews
[
.B \-o
]
[
.B \-a
]
[
.B \-b
]
[
.B \-n
newsgroups
]
destination
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I 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
.I destination.
.PP
An `N' is prepended to each line for decoding by
.I uurec(1).
.PP
The
.B \-o
flag handles old format articles.
.PP
The
.B \-a
flag is used for sending articles via the
.B ARPANET.
It maps the article's path from
.I uucphost!xxx
to
.I xxx@arpahost.
.PP
The
.B \-b
flag is used for sending articles via the
.B Berknet.
It maps the article's path from
.I uucphost!xxx
to
.I berkhost:xxx.
.PP
The
.B \-n
flag changes the article's newsgroup to the specified
.I newsgroup.
.SH SEE ALSO
inews(1),
uurec(8),
recnews(8),
readnews(1),
checknews(1)