riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/10/83)
I discovered in a mildly embarassing incident on net.games last week that
the normal version of postnews was ignoring the "distribution" spec when
the user invoked it with a filename as an argument. Here is a new version
of postnews containing my fix for the bug. (It's really remarkable that
no one has cleared this one up long ago -- the difference is trivial.)
Thanks to Guy Riddle for pointing out the exact nature of the problem.
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: '@(#)postnews.v7 2.8 4/23/83'
:
: 'modified 12/8/83 by Prentiss Riddle (riddle@ut-sally.UUCP) not to '
: ' ignore a Distribution specification when invoked with a '
: ' filename argument. '
:
if test $# -gt 1 ; then
/bin/echo "$0: Too many args"
exit 1
fi
if test $# -eq 1 -a ! -r "$1" ; then
/bin/echo "$0: Can't read $1"
exit 1
fi
/bin/echo -n "Subject: "
read title
/bin/echo -n "Newsgroups (general): "
read ng
if test x$ng = x ; then
ng=general
fi
/bin/echo -n "Distribution ($ng): "
read dist
if test x$dist = x; then
dist=$ng
fi
t=/tmp/pn$$
trap "sleep 1; cp $t $HOME/dead.article ; echo saved in $HOME/dead.article ; rm -f $t; exit" 1
trap "" 2
/bin/echo "Subject: $title" > $t
/bin/echo "Newsgroups: $ng" >> $t
if test $dist != $ng; then
/bin/echo "Distribution: $dist" >> $t
fi
/bin/echo "" >> $t
case $# in
0)
${EDITOR-vi} $t
cd /tmp
if inews -h <$t
then
:
else
if cat $t >>$HOME/dead.article
then
/bin/echo Article saved in $HOME/dead.article
fi
fi
;;
1)
cat $1 >>$t
cd /tmp
inews -h < $t
;;
esac
sleep 1
rm -f $t
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