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.TH CVTBATCH 8
.SH NAME
cvtbatch \- convert Usenet batch file to INN format
.SH SYNOPSIS
.I cvtbatch
[
.BI \-w " items"
]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Cvtbatch
reads standard input as a sequence 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.
.PP
Each line is taken as a storage API token indicating a Usenet article.
(Only the first word of each line is parsed; anything following
whitespace is ignored.  Lines not starting with a valid token are also
silently ignored.)
.PP
If the input file consists of a series of Message-ID's, then use
.IR grephistory (1)
with the `\fB`\-s\fP'' flag piped into
.IR cvtbatch .
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-w
The `\fB`\-w\fP'' 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
.IR newsfeeds (5).
They may be chosen from the following set:
.PP
.RS
.nf
	b	Size of article in bytes
	f	full pathname of article
	m	article message-id
	n	relative pathname of article
.fi
.RE
.SH HISTORY
Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.
.de R$
This is revision \\$3, dated \\$4.
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.R$ $Id: cvtbatch.8 5909 2002-12-03 05:17:18Z vinocur $
.SH "SEE ALSO"
grephistory(1),
inn.conf(5),
newsfeeds(5).