4 cvtbatch \- convert Usenet batch file to INN format
12 reads standard input as a sequence of lines, converts each line, and
13 writes it to standard output.
14 It is used to convert simple batchfiles that contain just the article
15 name to INN batchfiles that contain additional information about each
18 Each line is taken as a storage API token indicating a Usenet article.
19 (Only the first word of each line is parsed; anything following
20 whitespace is ignored. Lines not starting with a valid token are also
23 If the input file consists of a series of Message-ID's, then use
25 with the `\fB`\-s\fP'' flag piped into
30 The `\fB`\-w\fP'' flag specifies how each output line should be written.
31 The items for this flag should be chosen from the ``W'' flag items as
34 They may be chosen from the following set:
38 b Size of article in bytes
39 f full pathname of article
41 n relative pathname of article
45 Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
47 This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4.
49 .R$ $Id: cvtbatch.8 5909 2002-12-03 05:17:18Z vinocur $