Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!yale!bunker!wtm
From: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Is there any way to save outgoing postings?
Message-ID: <3423@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 30 Mar 88 18:00:11 GMT
References: <398@vsi.UUCP> <417@vsi.UUCP> <222@ditka.UUCP> <13756@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: wtm@bunker.UUCP (Bill McGarry)
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Organization: Bunker Ramo, an Olivetti Company, Shelton, CT
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In article <417@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>the environment variable $NEWSARCHIVE directs postnews to save my
>postings in the specified file:

In article <222@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
>
>Does anybody know of an equivalent feature in rn?

In article <13756@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> esj@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Eric S. Johnson) writes:
>Nope, it does not exist in rn. (or, more specifically, Pnews)
>But.. Pnews (the program which does all the posting for rn and rrn)
>is just a little shell script. You can easily modify it to do anything 
>you want. Have fun.. I have.
>

You should not have to modify Pnews at all.  Just add the environment
variable AUTHORCOPY to your profile or to your rn options file and
all postings will be saved to the specified file.  If you want
a copy kept of any mail sent as replies while in rn, set the
environment variable MAILRECORD.

 
				Bill McGarry
				Bunker Ramo, Shelton, CT

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