nnspool / inews error

nnspool / inews error

[Ed Donovan]

Hi - 

My first post with Gnus 5.3 failed, giving this error:

nnspool: /usr/bin/inews: bad option -S; usage too large, see inews(1) 

I set debug-on-error, but it would not produce a backtrace.  Here's the
head of my inews man page, if it's at all helpful:

===
INJNEWS(1)      UNIX System V (20 September 1991)      INJNEWS(1)

NAME
     injnews, inews - `user-friendly' news-posting front-ends for
     relaynews

SYNOPSIS
     injnews [ -N ] [ -A ] [ -V ] [ -x excluded-site ]
    inews [ -h ] [ -N ] [ -A ] [ -V ] [ -x excluded-site ] [ -W ]
       [ -M ] [ -a Approved:-contents ] [ -c Control:-contents ]
       [ -d Distribution:-contents ] [ -e Expires:-contents ] [
       -f From:-contents ] [ -n Newsgroups:-contents ] [ -o
       Organization:-contents ] [ -r Reply-To:-contents ] [ -t
       Subject:-contents ] [ -C newsgroup ] [ -F References:-
       contents ] [ file ...  ]
    inews -p [ file ... ]
===

The system runs 5.1 as the standard; no sign of this, of course.

GNU Emacs 19.30.3 (mips-sgi-irix5, X toolkit) 
Gnus v5.3; nntp 4.0; nnspool 2.0; nnfolder 1.0

I'm trying to dash this off before going to work, so excuse me if
stupidities lurk herein.  

Thanks,
-- 

Ed Donovan			edonovan@world.std.com

Re: nnspool / inews error

[Sudish Joseph]

In article <199607031801.AA21205@world.std.com>,
Ed Donovan <edonovan@world.std.com> writes:
> nnspool: /usr/bin/inews: bad option -S; usage too large, see inews(1) 

I'm not familiar with injnews, whatever it may be, but the -S option
was added to nnspool-inews-switches to supress the signature copy
added by inews.

For a quick, and possibly complete, workaround, set that variable to
whatever you feel is good with injnews.

>      injnews, inews - `user-friendly' news-posting front-ends for

Very user-friendly to alias well known programs to executables that
don't accept the same options. :)
-- 
Sudish

Re: nnspool / inews error

[Frank D. Cringle]

Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com> writes:
>In article <199607031801.AA21205@world.std.com>,
>Ed Donovan <edonovan@world.std.com> writes:
>> nnspool: /usr/bin/inews: bad option -S; usage too large, see inews(1) 
>
>I'm not familiar with injnews, whatever it may be, but the -S option
>was added to nnspool-inews-switches to supress the signature copy
>added by inews.
>
>For a quick, and possibly complete, workaround, set that variable to
>whatever you feel is good with injnews.
>
>>      injnews, inews - `user-friendly' news-posting front-ends for
>
>Very user-friendly to alias well known programs to executables that
>don't accept the same options. :)

It's a cnews-ism.  Here is what I have in my ~/.gnus...

  (setq nnspool-inews-program "/usr/bin/injnews")
  (setq nnspool-inews-switches nil)

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