Subject: Re: (in)ability to send-pr
To: None <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 03/12/1996 18:24:33
> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 14:01:41 -0500
> From: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>

> There seems to be this widespread idea that you can't send-pr except
> from a NetBSD box.
> 
> This is a misconception.  All my PRs are sent from my NeXT, at home,
> which is not (yet, sigh :) a NetBSD machine.
> 
> send-pr is just a shell script.  You need to copy a little other stuff,
> I seem to recall, but not much.  And you need to tweak a pathname or
> two in the shell script.  But it's not hard.

Actually, one does not even need the shell scripts.  I just pull the
"blank form" below into emacs, edit as needed, and send the mail.

Gordon


SEND-PR: -*- send-pr -*-
SEND-PR: Lines starting with `SEND-PR' will be removed automatically, as
SEND-PR: will all comments (text enclosed in `<' and `>').
SEND-PR: 
SEND-PR: Please consult the send-pr man page `send-pr(1)' or the Texinfo
SEND-PR: manual if you are not sure how to fill out a problem report.
SEND-PR:
SEND-PR: Choose from the following categories:
SEND-PR:
SEND-PR: bin        kern       lib        misc       port-amiga 
SEND-PR: port-hp300 port-i386  port-m68k  port-mac   port-pc532 
SEND-PR: port-pmax  port-sparc port-sun3  standards  
SEND-PR:
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