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Title "CVTBATCH 8" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
way too many mistakes in technical documents.
cvtbatch - Convert Usenet batch files to INN format Header "SYNOPSIS" \fBcvtbatch [-w items] Header "DESCRIPTION" \fBcvtbatch reads standard input as a sequence of lines, converts each line, and writes it to standard output. It is used to convert simple batch files that contain just the storage \s-1API\s0 token of an article to \s-1INN\s0 batch files that contain additional information about each article.

Each line is taken as a storage \s-1API\s0 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.

If the input file consists of a series of message-IDs, then use \fBgrephistory with the -s flag piped into cvtbatch.

Header "OPTIONS" Item "-w items" The -w flag specifies how each output line should be written. The items for this flag should be chosen from the \*(C`W\*(C' flag items as specified in newsfeeds\|(5). They may be chosen from the following set: .Sp .Vb 5 b Size of the article in bytes. f Storage API token of the article (same as "n"). m Article message-ID. n Storage API token of the article. t Arrival time of the article as seconds since epoch. .Ve .Sp The default is \*(C`nm\*(C', that is to say the storage \s-1API\s0 token followed by the message-ID of the article. Header "HISTORY" Written by Rich $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews. Converted to \s-1POD\s0 by Julien Elie.

\f(CW$Id: cvtbatch.pod 8704 2009-11-03 18:51:44Z iulius $

Header "SEE ALSO" \fBgrephistory\|(1), newsfeeds\|(5).