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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