Urgent help needed with "stuck" bnews spooled postings

[thad at btr.btr.com]

I posted an "en passant" remark about a bunch of my postings to comp.sys.3b1
never making it out to the world.  Last night, at dinner after a computer
meeting, Dave Herron (dherron at twg.com) commented in response to my question
the files could be found in /usr/spool/news/.rnews and that they were placed
there while expire is running (causing the "Your post is spooled for later
processing" messages when originally posted).

I checked, and, by golly, they ARE there!

Question: HOW to fire these up so they make it out to the world?

There are two types of files:

	executable cunbatch scripts, and
	executable inews scripts

If you have some clues or know how to do this, please send email ASAP either
to me or to cs at btr.com (I'm just a customer/user here at BTR and would relay
the info to ``cs'' anyway).  BTR is running bnews on SunOS 4.0.* if that
makes any difference.

Many thanks!

Thad

P.S. For reference, here's a partial listing of the type of files about which
I'm talking about (my posts are the "small" files):

[...]
-rw-r--r--  1 news       295965 Feb 25 06:26 910225142660e3
-rw-r--r--  1 news         1389 Mar  1 02:04 91030110052553
-rw-r--r--  1 news         1403 Mar  1 02:19 91030110202583
-rw-r--r--  1 news         1741 Mar  1 02:29 910301103025a3
-rw-r--r--  1 news         2395 Mar  1 02:42 910301104325c0
-rw-r--r--  1 news         1470 Mar  1 02:51 9103011052266a
-rw-r--r--  1 news       255640 Mar  1 03:05 910301110531e3
-rw-r--r--  1 news         2311 Mar  1 03:05 91030111062719
-rw-r--r--  1 news         1443 Mar  1 03:11 91030111122743
-rw-r--r--  1 news       242874 Mar  1 03:16 910301111631eb
-rw-r--r--  1 news          888 Mar  1 04:12 910301121327d3
[...]

and here's a "file *" of the same range of files:

[...]
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910225142660e3:	executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030110052553:	executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030110202583:	executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301103025a3:	executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301104325c0:	executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/9103011052266a:	executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301110531e3:	executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030111062719:	executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/91030111122743:	executable inews script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301111631eb:	executable cunbatch script
/usr/spool/news/.rnews/910301121327d3:	executable inews script
[...]

Thad Floryan [ thad at btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]