NFTIMESTAMP(8)						      System Manager's Manual						    NFTIMESTAMP(8)

NAME

       nftimestamp - Set Notesfile sequencer timestamps

SYNOPSIS

       nftimestamp [ -v ] [ -t ] notesfile [ notesfile ]

DESCRIPTION

       The  Notesfile  system uses timestamps to determine which articles in a notesfile have been read by an individual user.	The timestamps are
       compared with arrival times of the individual articles to determine if a user has seen that article.  Nftimestamp provides a simple  mecha-
       nism for updating many timestamps.

       In the usual case, nftimestamp is invoked with a list of notesfiles.  The invoking user's sequencer timestamps for the specified notesfiles
       are set to the current time.  The -t option allows the user to specify some different time.  Notesfiles are specified in the same manner as
       on  the	notes command line.  Include notesfiles by using their name; the shell wildcard characters (?*[]) are correctly expanded.  Exclude
       notesfiles be prefixing their name with an exclamation mark: !notesfile.  The -f option reads a list  of  notesfiles  to  be  included  and
       excluded from the specifid file.

       The Notesfile Administrator can use the -u option to set the sequencer for systems and other users.

       The  seqtoascii and seqtobinary utilities provide the same function as this program.  Using those programs, the user must change each time-
       stamp manually and then restore the sequencer file.  Nftimestamp provides a simpler interface.

FILES

       /etc/passwd			  for the users name
       /etc/group			  for the users group
       /usr/spool/notes 		  the default notesfile data base

SEE ALSO

       notes(1), seqtoascii(1), seqtobinary(1),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick@a.cs.uiuc.edu)
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

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