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From: edhew@xenitec.on.ca (Ed Hew)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Posting Messages That Aren't Responses
Keywords: pnews, Pnews, path, find
Message-ID: <1989Nov29.035013.4841@xenitec.on.ca>
Date: 29 Nov 89 03:50:13 GMT
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In article <432@codonics.COM> bret@codonics.UUCP (Bret Orsburn) writes:
>In article <1989Nov27.035719.1464@xenitec.on.ca> edhew@xenitec.UUCP (Ed Hew) writes:
>>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.
>>>
>>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.)
>
>Ed. A. Hew has missed the point here. I have a vanilla UUCP mail site
>and there is no 'pnews' program anywhere on it.
>
>The standard news posting program in B news 2.11 is called 'postnews'.
>The program 'Pnews' (not 'pnews') is a news posting program that comes
>with 'rn' (which is an optional Public Domain news reading program).
>And I'm sure there are other news posting programs, besides those I have
>mentioned.

You are quite correct, Pnews (with an uppercase "P") is the correct
name of the program.  Looking for "pnews" will of course not find it
unless someone has linked it to that name for the sake of convenience
of the users on that site.  You will note that the original poster
was trying to execute "pnews" (lower case "p"), hence my (slightly
"wrong_case" answer).  Try a		find / -name Pnews -print
and see what that turns up.

If you simply don't have it, and need the sources (not being able to find
them anywhere closer), I can email them to you, as Pnews isn't large.
As the above poster pointed out though, if you have 'rn' then Pnews
should be lurking around there somewhere.

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>Bret Orsburn

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