KITSEND(1)

🎀 KITSEND(1) — bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is the manual page KITSEND(1) from the General Commands Manual, and the command it's actually documenting is kitpost. yes the title and the command don't match, no we are not going to be normal about it, moving on 💅

✨ NAME ✨

kitpost — posts distribution kits 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

kitpost [ -hrV ] [ -H file ] [ -D desc ] [ -m dest1,dest2 ] [ kits ] [ newsgroups ]

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so kitpost takes the distribution kits that makedist made and posts them to some (source) newsgroups, and you tell it which newsgroups right there on the command line. iconic behavior honestly.

if you don't hand it a kit list at all, it just sends every single kit. periodt. but if you do give it a list, then only those kits get sent (or re-sent, we love a repost era 💖).

and a kit list? oh bestie it's flexible, it's giving range queen:

• ranges, like 1-10, which means kits 1 through 10
• open-ended ranges, like 5-, which means kit 5 all the way up to the last one
• kit numbers separated by commas or spaces
• and you can mix it all together, no cap, like: 1 3 5-7 9

kitpost also makes sure correct References: lines get inserted into your postings, so that every part except the first one points back to the root article. threaded newsreaders and end-users have traditionally appreciated that, and honestly? they're so right for that. 🫶

✨ OPTIONS ✨

here's everything kitpost recognizes, one by one, no skipping, we don't do that here 💅

• -h — prints the help message and dips. that's it, that's the whole vibe. ✨
• -m dest1,destn — sends kits by e-mail to the recipients you list. you can totally use this one together with newsgroup posting, they're not mutually exclusive bestie. it's mainly meant for sites where inews won't let you post directly to a moderated newsgroup. so you can send your kits to the newsgroup moderator in a form that makes the whole posting process way easier. king behavior, honestly 👑
• -r — signals a repost. we're running it back. 🔥
• -D description — specify a description string that gets added to the subject line. usually a brief sentence (less than, say, 40 characters), so keep it cute and keep it short. 🌸
• -H file — specify a file to be used as the header introduction in the first part of your posting. usually the root README file. 📄
• -V — prints the version number and exits. bye! 💖

💀 BUGS 💀

okay so, a couple of things, and I'm gonna be dramatic because they deserve it:

article cross-referencing is properly set-up only when the whole package is (re)posted in one batch. one batch or bust, bestie. 😭

it is not currently possible to set-up the article headers manually, or better, interactively. we simply cannot do it. not yet. 🙈

🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Raphael Manfredi <Raphael.Manfredi@pobox.com> — the icon, the legend, the moment. 💜

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• makedist(1)
• kitsend(1)

and that's the whole page, bestie!! go forth and post those kits, you're gonna eat 🍓✨

anyway, this page signs off with ram down at the bottom next to KITSEND(1), from the General Commands Manual — so shoutout to ram, we love you, mwah 💋🎀🧚