NAME

       cvtbatch - convert Usenet batch file to INN format

SYNOPSIS

       cvtbatch [ -w items ]

DESCRIPTION

       Cvtbatch reads standard input as a series of lines, converts each line, and writes it to standard output.
       It is used to convert simple batchfiles that contain just the article name to INN batchfiles that contain
       additional information about each article.

       Each  line  is taken as the pathname to a Usenet article.  If it is not an absolute pathname, it is taken
       relative to the spool directory, /var/spool/news.  (Only the first word of each line is parsed;  anything
       following whitespace is ignored.)

OPTIONS

       -w     The  ``-w'' flag specifies how each output line should be written.  The items for this flag should
              be chosen from the ``W'' flag items as specified in newsfeeds(5).  They may  be  chosen  from  the
              following set:
                   b    Size of article in bytes
                   f    full pathname of article
                   m    article message-id
                   n    relative pathname of article

       If  the  input  file  consists  of a series of Message-ID's, then use grephistory(1) with the ``-s'' flag
       piped into cvtbatch.

HISTORY

       Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is revision 1.4, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO

       grephistory(1) newsfeeds(5).

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