nfprint(1) [bsd man page]

NFPRINT(1)						      General Commands Manual							NFPRINT(1)

NAME

       nfprint - Print the contents of a notesfile

SYNOPSIS

       nfprint [ -p ] [ -l# ] [ -d or -nd ] [ -c ] [ -t ] topic [ note-list ]

DESCRIPTION

       Nfprint	gives  the  user  the ability to print the contents of notesfiles.  Nfprint writes to standard output.	The text is formatted with
       pr(1).  When the -c option is used, the output is filtered through cat(1) instead.

       The -l# parameter specifies the page length to use (66 lines/page is the default).  By specifying -p, the printout is arranged so each base
       note starts on a new page.  The -d and -nd options specify only notes with the director flag on or off respectively are to be printed.  Use
       -t to generate a list of titles only; the text of notes and responses is suppressed.

       The note list is the set of notes which are to be printed.  An example note list is: 1,30-36,13,10,42-50.

FILES

       /bin/pr				  Output filter
       /etc/passwd			  for the users name
       /etc/group			  for the users group(s)
       /usr/spool/notes 		  the default notesfile data base

SEE ALSO

       notes(1), pr(1),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
       Department of Computer Science
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

       Rob Kolstad (kolstad@convex.UUCP)
       CONVEX Computer Corporation
       Richardson, TX

							      University of Illinois							NFPRINT(1)

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

NAME

       nfdump, nfload - notesfile dump/load programs

SYNOPSIS

       nfdump notesfile

       nfload [ -Ddirectory ] notesfile

DESCRIPTION

       Nfdump and nfload are used to convert notesfile data base formats.

       Nfdump  converts  the  specified  notesfile  to a portable ASCII format and writes it to standard output.  Some diagnostics are produced on
       stderr.	Nfdump can be run by any user; access to a particular notesfile is governed by that notesfile's access list.

       Nfload is used on the output from nfdump to create a new notesfile.  The -D option specifies an alternate base directory for the notesfile.
       If unspecified, this defaults to ``/usr/spool/notes''.  Nfload reads standard input for the ASCII representation of the notesfile.

       Typical	use  of  these	two programs occurs when converting an existing notesfile data base to a new format.  The nfdump program should be
       compiled with the older structure definitions while nfload is compiled with the newer structures.  The data base can then be converted with
       a shell script of the following nature:

	    mkdir .OLD
	    mv * .OLD
	    for i in `ls .OLD`
	    do
		 echo $i start
		 nfdump $i | nfload -D/usr/spool/newnotes $i
	    done
		 echo $i done
	    echo ALL DONE
	    rm -rf .OLD

       This assumes that the old data base is in ``/usr/spool/notes'' and the new data base is to be placed in ``/usr/spool/newnotes''.  After the
       conversion is complete, one can move the old data base from ``/usr/spool/notes'' to ``/usr/spool/oldformat'' and the  new  data	base  from
       ``/usr/spool/newnotes'' to ``/usr/spool/notes''.

FILES

SEE ALSO

       notes(1),
       The Notesfile Reference Manual

AUTHORS

       Ray Essick (uiucdcs!essick, essick%uiuc@csnet-relay.arpa)
       Department of Computer Science
       University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
       Urbana, IL

       Rob Kolstad (kolstad@convex.UUCP)
       CONVEX Computer Corporation
       Richardson, TX

							      University of Illinois							 NFDUMP(8)