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     * Reporting Problems With send-pr: (send-pr).   Bug Reporting
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Copyright © 1993 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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Overview
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This manual documents send-pr, which uses electronic mail to submit support questions and software bugs to a central site.  No piece of software is perfect, and software organizations understand this; send-pr is designed to allow users who have problems to submit reports of these problems to sites responsible for supporting the software in question, in a defined form which can be read by an electronically managed database.

send-pr is part of a suite of programs known collectively as GNATS, the GNU Problem Report Management System. GNATS consists of several programs which, used in concert, formulate and partially administer a database of Problem Reports, or PRs, at a central support site.  A PR goes through several states in its lifetime; GNATS tracks the PR and all information associated with it through each state and finally acts as an archive for PRs which have been closed.

Because send-pr exists as a shell script and as an elisp file for use within GNU Emacs, it is quite portable.  It can be used from any machine on your network which can run a shell script and/or Emacs.

Throughout this manual, the personal pronouns you and your refer to the originator of the Problem Report.

The GNATS utility suite is currently at version 3.00.

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