ggr@pyuxbb.UUCP (09/30/83)
In some cases, that is. If you do postnews file the postnews shell script will prompt you for Subject, Newsgroups, and Distribution, but then invokes inews with: inews -t "$title" -n $ng < $t & and your article goes out without your carefully crafted Distribution list. This can't be fixed simply, since inews takes no flag argument that would enable passing the distribution list on the command line. The postnews shell will work (without surprises) if you give it no file name, as it ends up invoking if inews -h <$t ... which is the only way to get the distribution into inews. So, if you need to specify a non-default Distribution, invoke readnews with no argument, answer the prompts, then when your editor is invoked, read your already-prepared article in at the end of the heading lines (making sure there is a blank line after the header). === Guy Riddle == AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway ===