DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE(1)					      General Commands Manual					     DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE(1)

NAME

       dailystrips-update - download updated dailystrips definitions

SYNOPSIS

       dailystrips-update [OPTIONS] DAYS

WARNING

       This  script  is intended to use under the assumption that the development version of strips.def is the latest and best.  Unfortunately, at
       the time of this writing (August, 2007) upstream development seems to have ceased, so using this script will likely result in a	more  out-
       of-date strips definiton than is included in the distribution.

WARNING

       Due  to	the  above, as of November 2009, dailystrips-update has been neutered to exit immediately on execution, and it is expected that it
       will be removed in a future version of this package.

DESCRIPTION

       The dailystrips-update script is provided to automatically retrieve updated strip definitions from a central server, eliminating  the  need
       to manually download and install new versions of the entire program.

       It  is  recommened  that the dailystrips-update script be run before each execution of the main dailystrips program. The dailystrips-update
       script has provisions to only check for updates if the current file has reached a certain age, which maximizes efficiency and should  allow
       users to run the update script before each execution of dailystrips without overtaxing the update server.

USAGE

       Operation  is  straightforward.	Simply execute dailystrips-update and the updated definitions will be saved to ~/.dailystrips-updates.def,
       which will automatically be loaded by the main dailystrips program.

OPTIONS

       -q, --quiet
	      Turn off progress messages

       -v, --verbose
	      Turn on extra progress information, overrides -q

       --proxy host:port
	      Use specified HTTP proxy server (overrides environment proxy, if set)

       --proxyauth user:pass
	      Set username and password for proxy server

       --noenvproxy
	      Ignore the http_proxy environment variable, if set

       --retries NUM
	      When downloading items, make NUM attempts instead of only once

       --updates FILE
	      Save updates to FILE instead of ~/.dailystrips-updates.def

       --minage NUM
	      Skip downloading updates if local file is less than NUM seconds old

       -V, --version
	      Print version number

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options

SEE ALSO

       dailystrips(1)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Rene Weber <rene_debmaint@public.e-mail.elvenlord.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by
       others).

								   June 25, 2004					     DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE(1)