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To read and/or post news items with Pine, start Pine by
typing:
pine
at the system prompt. From the main menu, choose Folder List;
when in folder list, use the down-arrow key to go down to the
section headed by:
News-collection ... (Remote)
and press Enter to show all of the available newsgroups.
Choose (highlight) a newsgroup (move with the arrow keys) and
press Enter to start reading that group.
If you do not see the "News-collection" section in the Folder
List, then go to the How to post
to newsgroups page for instructions on configuring Pine
to read and post news.
As you're viewing articles, if you see one you wish to
respond to, you have two options; to respond including their
original text, or to just respond as a separate post. If you
want to include some/all of the original text, you'll need to
save the article first.
To save an article you're viewing, type 'S' to save the
article to a file. When asked for the filename, type it as:
~/filename
where <filename> is the name you want to call the saved
file. By prefixing the filename with "~/", it will be placed
in your home directory; otherwise it will be placed in your
"~/mail" subdirectory (Pine's subdirectory). (For example,
specifying:
~/foo
will create the file "" in your home directory, and
specifying just:
foo
will create the file "" in your "" subdirectory (under your
home directory)).
To post a message to a group (whether you've saved a previous
post or not), type "" (compose) when reading an article. You
will be asked if you wish to post a message to the current
group; type "" You'll then be placed in the editor in the
outgoing post; enter a subject for the post.
If you want to quote the previous article (assuming you saved
it as shown above), type Ctrl-r in the body of the post to
read in the saved file. You'll be prompted to enter a
filename *from the home directory* - if you saved the file as
"~/filename", type:
filename
at this prompt to retrieve it. If you saved it as just
"filename", type:
mail/filename
at the prompt. (For example, if you saved it as "", you'll
need to read it in from "/foo" if you saved it as "~/foo",
you'll read it in from "") Once you've included the previous
message, trim off all the unnecessary text and edit in your
replies. If no message is saved and retrieved, just enter
your text in the body of the post.
When done editing your post, type Ctrl-x to prepare to post
it. You'll be asked if you want to send the post (answer ""),
and then you'll be asked " post?" (answer "" again). Assuming
you did everything correctly, the article will then be
posted. It may take a couple of minutes to show up on your
local news server, longer on other news servers.
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