.TH newsbody 1 "APRIL 2000" Unix "User Manuals"

.SH NAME
newsbody \- Run a program on the body of a mail or news message

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B newsbody [-fhqsv] [-k
.I headername
.B ] -n
.I message
.B -p
.I program
.B [-- [
.I arguments...
.B ]]

.SH DESCRIPTION
.B newsbody
copies the body of a news or email article in
.I message
to a temporary file (called the
.IR bodyfile )
and then calls
.I program
with its
.IR arguments .
.I program
is supposed to somehow change the
.IR bodyfile .
It can for instance be a spell checker. Afterwards the possibly
changed body is remerged with the headers and copied back into the
.IR message .

.PP
If
.I message
is specified as
.I \-
then
.B newsbody
will act as a filter, i.e. standard input and standard output will
be used.

.PP
.B %f
in the
.I arguments
will be expanded to the name of the
.IR bodyfile ,
or
.B \-
if the -f option is used. Use
.B %%
for a real % character.

.SH OPTIONS
.IP -f
The called program is a filter so don't make a temporary file, but
pipe the body to its standard input and read it back from its
standard output.
.IP -h
Keep the entire header. This flag can also be used if
.I newsfile
doesn't have a header at all.
.IP -q
Also remove quotes before filtering the body. Lines starting with
> are considered quotes.
.IP -s
Also remove signature before filtering the body.
.IP -k\ headername
Keep these header lines in the bodyfile. Multiple -k flags are
allowed.
.IP -v
Print the version and exit.

.SH FILES
.B newsbody
uses one or two temporary files with names given by the
.BR mkstemp (3)
or the
.BR tmpnam (3)
function.

.SH BUGS
If some system call gives an unexpected error
.B newsbody
will stop immediately with an error message leaving its temporary
files.

.SH AUTHOR
Byrial Jensen <byrial@image.dk>

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR pospell (1).