1CVTBATCH(8)                 System Manager's Manual                CVTBATCH(8)
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NAME

6       cvtbatch - convert Usenet batch file to INN format
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SYNOPSIS

9       cvtbatch [ -w items ]
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DESCRIPTION

12       Cvtbatch  reads  standard  input  as a sequence of lines, converts each
13       line, and writes it to standard output.  It is used to  convert  simple
14       batchfiles  that  contain  just the article name to INN batchfiles that
15       contain additional information about each article.
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17       Each line is taken as a storage API token indicating a Usenet  article.
18       (Only  the first word of each line is parsed; anything following white‐
19       space is ignored.  Lines not starting  with  a  valid  token  are  also
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22       If  the  input  file  consists  of  a  series of Message-ID's, then use
23       grephistory(1) with the ``-s'' flag piped into cvtbatch.
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OPTIONS

26       -w     The ``-w'' flag specifies how each output line should  be  writ‐
27              ten.   The  items  for this flag should be chosen from the ``W''
28              flag items as specified in newsfeeds(5).   They  may  be  chosen
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31                   b    Size of article in bytes
32                   f    full pathname of article
33                   m    article message-id
34                   n    relative pathname of article
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HISTORY

37       Written  by  Rich  $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is
38       revision 5909, dated 2002-12-03.
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SEE ALSO

41       grephistory(1), inn.conf(5), newsfeeds(5).
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