NAME

       dailystrips-update - download updated dailystrips definitions

SYNOPSIS

       dailystrips-update [OPTIONS] DAYS

WARNING

       This  script  is  intended  to use under the assumption that the development version of strips.def is the
       latest and best.  Unfortunately, at the time of this writing (August, 2007) upstream development seems to
       have  ceased,  so  using  this  script  will likely result in a more out-of-date strips definiton than is
       included in the distribution.

WARNING

       Due to the above, as of November 2009, dailystrips-update  has  been  neutered  to  exit  immediately  on
       execution, and it is expected that it will be removed in a future version of this package.

DESCRIPTION

       The  dailystrips-update  script  is  provided  to automatically retrieve updated strip definitions from a
       central server, eliminating the need to manually download and install new versions of the entire program.

       It is recommened that the dailystrips-update script be run before each execution of the main  dailystrips
       program.  The  dailystrips-update script has provisions to only check for updates if the current file has
       reached a certain age, which maximizes efficiency and should allow users to run the update script  before
       each execution of dailystrips without overtaxing the update server.

USAGE

       Operation is straightforward. Simply execute dailystrips-update and the updated definitions will be saved
       to ~/.dailystrips-updates.def, which will automatically be loaded by the main dailystrips program.

OPTIONS

       -q, --quiet
              Turn off progress messages

       -v, --verbose
              Turn on extra progress information, overrides -q

       --proxy host:port
              Use specified HTTP proxy server (overrides environment proxy, if set)

       --proxyauth user:pass
              Set username and password for proxy server

       --noenvproxy
              Ignore the http_proxy environment variable, if set

       --retries NUM
              When downloading items, make NUM attempts instead of only once

       --updates FILE
              Save updates to FILE instead of ~/.dailystrips-updates.def

       --minage NUM
              Skip downloading updates if local file is less than NUM seconds old

       -V, --version
              Print version number

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options

SEE ALSO

       dailystrips(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Rene Weber <rene_debmaint@public.e-mail.elvenlord.com>,  for  the  Debian
       GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

                                                  June 25, 2004                            DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE(1)