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From: johnb@lakesys.lakesys.com (John C. Burant)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: Re: Can I automatically get copies of my own postings?
Summary: It's already there.
Message-ID: <1478@lakesys.lakesys.com>
Date: 29 Dec 89 04:51:00 GMT
References: <6902@tank.uchicago.edu>
Reply-To: johnb@lakesys.UUCP (John C. Burant)
Organization: With people like this?
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In article <6902@tank.uchicago.edu> toto@tank.uchicago.edu (Sandra Jessica Smyth) writes:

>We are running rn here and I am posting this with postnews.  Is there
>anything I can do to automatically save copies of my own postings?
[deleted]
Yes.

>automatically appended to a file something like
It already has been automatically appended to $HOME/.article
So to view it once you've sent it, do a:
 cat .article (assuming your in your $HOME directory)
However, next time you post news, this will be replaced, so if you really
want to keep it, you'd better make a copy.

-John

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