NAME

       dailystrips - view web comic strips more conveniently

SYNOPSIS

       dailystrips [options] stripname...

DESCRIPTION

       This  manual page documents briefly the dailystrips command.  This manual page was written for the Debian
       GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

       dailystrips is a Perl script that gathers online comic strips  for  more  convenient  viewing.   When  in
       normal mode, it creates an HTML page that references the strips directly, and when in local mode, it also
       downloads the images to your local disk.  In local mode, it is intended to be run from cron, and for your
       own private use only -- redistribution of the images may be illegal.

COMIC STRIP DEFINITIONS

       There  are three files from which the definitions for comic strips can be read (aside from that specified
       with the --defs option, which is read right  after  the  one  in  /usr/share/dailystrips).   The  shipped
       definition  file  is in /usr/share/dailystrips/strips.def and is read first.  Next, dailystrips reads the
       system-wide override file in /etc/dailystrips.defs (unless --nosystem is specified), which  can  hold  an
       updated  definition  file permitting up to date or locally-specific definitions without having to upgrade
       the whole package.  Finally, the  user's  own  override  file  in  ~/.dailystrips.defs  is  read  (unless
       --nopersonal  is  used).   The  last  definition  read  has precedence.  Updated strip definitions can be
       downloaded at <http://dailystrips.sourceforge.net/download.html>.

OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with  long  options  starting  with  two  dashes
       (`-').   A  summary  of  options  is  included below.  For a complete description, see the README file in
       /usr/share/doc/dailystrips/.

       -h, --help
              Show summary of options

       -q, --quiet
              Turn off progress messages

       --verbose
              Turns on extra progress information, overrides -q

       --list List available strips

       --random
              Download a random strip

       --defs FILE
              Use alternate strips definition file

       --nopersonal
              Ignore ~/.dailystrips.defs

       --nosystem
              Ignore system-wide definitions in /etc/dailystrips.defs

       --output FILE
              Output HTML to FILE instead of STDOUT (does not apply to local mode)

       --lite Output a reduced HTML page

       --stripnav
              Add links for navigation within the page

       --titles STRING
              Customize HTML output

       -l, --local
              Output HTML to file and save strips locally

       --noindex
              Disable symlinking current page to index.html (local mode only)

       -a, --archive
              Generate archive.html as a list of all days (local mode only)

       -d, --dailydir
              Create a separate directory for each day's images (local mode only)

       --stripdir
              Create a separate directory for each strip's images (local mode only)

       -s, --save
              If it appears that a particular strip has been downloaded, does  not  attempt  to  re-download  it
              (local mode only)

       --nostale
              If  a  new strip is not available, displays an error in the HTML output instead of showing the old
              image

       --nosymlinks
              Do not use symlinks for day-to-day duplicates

       --date DATE
              Use value DATE instead of local time (DATE is parsed by Date::Parse  function,  not  available  on
              Win32)

       --avantgo
              Format images for viewing with Avantgo on PDAs

       --basedir DIR
              Work  in  specified  directory  instead  of  current  directory  (program will look here for strip
              definitions, previous HTML files, etc. and save new files here)

       --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

       --nospaces
              Remove spaces from image filenames (local mode only)

       --useragent STRING
              Set User-Agent: header to STRING (default is none)

       --retries NUM
              When downloading items, retry NUM times instead of default 3 times

       --clean NUM
              Keep only the latest NUM days of files; remove all older files

       -v, --version
              Print version number

SEE ALSO

       README, README.DEFS.gz (to add strips to the database), and README.LOCAL (for more details about  'local'
       operation) in /usr/share/doc/dailystrips/.

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(1)