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       have ceased, so using this script will likely result in a  more  out-of-date  strips  definiton  than  is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)