debian man page for postnews

POSTNEWS(1)						      General Commands Manual						       POSTNEWS(1)

NAME
       postnews - Post a Usenet article to a server

SYNOPSIS
       postnews [OPTIONS] SERVER

DESCRIPTION
       This  manual  page  documents  briefly the postnews command.  This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original
       program does not have a manual page.

       Postnews is used to post Usenet articles (including headers) from stdin to a server.  The article must at least contain the headers  From:,
       Newsgroups:, Subject:, a newline and a body.

OPTIONS
       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes ("-").  A summary of options is
       included below.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options.

       -v, --verbose
	      Be verbose.

       -f, --file=FILE
	      Read file instead of stdin.

       -p, --port
	      Port number.

       --user User name.

       --pass Password.

       -r, --readermode
	      Send MODE READER before authentication.

AUTHOR
       Postnews is  written  by  Michael  Waschbusch  <waschbuesch@users.sourceforge.net>.   This  manual  page  was  written  by  Peter  Karlsson
       <peterk@debian.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

								    2002-06-28							       POSTNEWS(1)