km@emory.UUCP (Ken Mandelberg) (08/27/85)
The documentation for readnews suggest that the -c option
can be used as:
readnews -c "mail -f %"
to use mail as your news reader. I have tried this option
and find that this doesn't really work appropriately. As
advertised it does:
1) Send the selected articles to a tmp file
2) Exec the quoted command line substituting the tmp file for %
3) Erase the tmp file.
What it doesn't do is format the tmp file so that either of
the standard Unix mail programs (/bin/mail or ./ucb/mail) can
read it. The abstract documentation of "-c" does not really
say anything about the format of the tmp file, but the
"mail -f %" is an example from the man page.
Am I missing something? Perhaps there is another command line
switch that effects the format.
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Why do I want this? What I really want to do is use readnews
to select articles on one system which I read on another. My
plan was to:
readnews -c "uucp % othersystem!path"
mail -f path (on othersystem)
However, since the file is not formatted correctly for mail
I end up using "more" as my my reader, a very suboptimal choice.
Since, I don't plan to build a news tree on the remote system,
I don't expect to be able to use readnews, vnews, or rn there.
But I should be able to use something like mail.
Any suggestions. Please reply by mail.
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Ken Mandelberg
Emory University
Dept of Math and CS
Atlanta, Ga 30322
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