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From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Posting Messages That Aren't Responses
Summary: finding a lost pnews binary
Keywords: pnews, path, find
Message-ID: <1989Nov27.035719.1464@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 27 Nov 89 03:57:19 GMT
References: <109@toaster.SFSU.EDU> <11418@cbnews.ATT.COM> <48213@bbn.COM>
Reply-To: edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew)
Followup-To: news.newusers.questions
Organization: XeniTec Consulting Services, Kitchener, ON, Canada
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In article <48213@bbn.COM> mesard@BBN.COM (Wayne Mesard) writes:
>r4@cbnews.ATT.COM (richard.r.grady) writes:
>>You also can post a new article from the operating system (i.e., shell)
>>command level, with the "pnews" program.  Just type the command
>>      pnews
>>and it will prompt you for newsgroup(s), subject, etc.
>
>This seems like a good time to remind folks not to assume that the rest
>of the UNIX boxes in the world are configured like theirs.
>
>For example, the above suggestion would produce the following result on
>my machine:
>
>  pnews: Command not found.
>
>Every response in this newsgroup comes with an implict "This works on my
>system, but you'll have to try it yourself or check with your sysadmin."

It's quite possible that a given user may not necessarily have a defined
search path to the dir where pnews lives on their system (which of course
varies widely.  Aside from asking their sysadmin/newsadmin, they could
always try a:		find / -name pnews -print
and see what that turns up in the directories they have x perms on.

(of course, it's always possible that the newsadmin may have mv'd it to
 another name.)

>void *Wayne_Mesard();         Mesard@BBN.COM         BBN, Cambridge, MA

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