1NNTPGET(1)                InterNetNews Documentation                NNTPGET(1)
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NAME

6       nntpget - Get Usenet articles from a remote NNTP server
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SYNOPSIS

9       nntpget [-ov] [-d dist] [-f file] [-n newsgroups] [-t timestring] [-u
10       file] host
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DESCRIPTION

13       nntpget connects to the NNTP server at the specified host and retrieves
14       articles from it.  The Message-IDs of the desired articles are read
15       from standard input.  The articles are sent to standard output.
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17       Instead of reading Message-IDs from standard output, the -d, -f, -n, -t
18       and -u options make use of the "NEWNEWS" command, which may not be
19       available on the remote server.  Only one of the -f, -t or -u option
20       may be given at the same time; -d and -n can be specified only if one
21       of the other three options is in use.
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23       If authentication credentials are present for the remote server in the
24       passwd.nntp file in pathetc, then nntpget will use them to
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OPTIONS

28       -d dist
29           This option may be used to specify a distribution list when using
30           the -f, -t or -u options.  The default is no distribution list.
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33           The list of article Message-IDs is normally read from standard
34           input.  If this option is used, then a "NEWNEWS" command is used to
35           retrieve all articles newer than the modification date of the
36           specified file.
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38       -n newsgroups
39           If either the -f, -t or -u options are used, then this option may
40           be used to limit the responses to only the newsgroups (if any)
41           whose names match the list.  The default is "*", that is to say all
42           newsgroups are wanted.
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44           The newsgroups list can contain several patterns and wildmat
45           characters.  For instance "misc.*,!*.test" is a valid list that
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48       -o  This option may be used only if the command is executed on the host
49           where the innd server is running.  If this option is used, nntpget
50           connects to the specified remote host to retrieve articles.  Any
51           article not present in the local history database is then fetched
52           from the remote site and offered to the local server.
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54           Articles are not written to standard output.  Only processed
55           Message-IDs are, if the -v option is also used.
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57       -t timestring
58           If this option is used, then the specified timestring is used as
59           the time and date parameter to the "NEWNEWS" command.  Only the
60           articles arrived in the remote server since that timestamp are
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63           The timestring is specified as "yyyymmdd hhmmss GMT" where "yyyy"
64           is the year, "mm" the month, "dd" the day of the month, "hh" the
65           hours in the 24-hour clock, "mm" the minutes, and "ss" the seconds.
66           The token "GMT" specifies that the date and time are given in
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69       -u file
70           This option is like -f except that if the transfer succeeds, the
71           file will be updated with a statistics line, modifying its
72           timestamp so that it can be used in later invocations.
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74       -v  If this option is used with -o, then the Message-ID of each article
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HISTORY

78       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  Rewritten
79       into POD by Julien Elie.
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SEE ALSO

82       innd(8), passwd.nntp(5).
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