CVTBATCH(8)

NAME
       cvtbatch - convert Usenet batch file to INN format

SYNOPSIS
       cvtbatch [ -w items ]

DESCRIPTION
       Cvtbatch  reads  standard input as a series of lines, con-
       verts 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.

       Each  line  is  taken as the pathname to a Usenet article.
       If it is not an absolute pathname, it is taken relative to
       the  spool  directory,  /var/spool/news.   (Only the first
       word of each line is parsed; anything following whitespace
       is ignored.)

OPTIONS
       -w     The  ``-w''  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
              newsfeeds(5).  They may be chosen from the  follow-
              ing set:
                   b    Size of article in bytes
                   f    full pathname of article
                   m    article message-id
                   n    relative pathname of article

       If  the  input  file consists of a series of Message-ID's,
       then use grephistory(1) with the ``-s''  flag  piped  into
       cvtbatch.

HISTORY
       Written  by  Rich  $alz lt;rsalz@uunet.uu.net for InterNet-
       News.  This is revision 1.4, dated 1996/10/29.

SEE ALSO
       grephistory(1) newsfeeds(5).