nfxmit(8) [bsd man page]

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

NAME

       nfxmit, nfrcv - notesfile networking programs

SYNOPSIS

       nfxmit -dsite [ -r ] [ -a ] [ -i ] [ -t date-spec ] [ -f file ] topic [ ... ]

       nfrcv topic fromsystem

DESCRIPTION

       Nfxmit  and nfrcv implement networking of notesfiles.  The nfxmit program packages eligible new articles and sends them to a remote system.
       Nfrcv is the receiving end of this team.

       Nfxmit sends the specified notesfiles to the site specified with the -d option.	The -r option specifies that a request	should	be  queued
       for  the  remote  site  to  transmit updates from its copies of the notesfiles sent.  The -r option is used only if the other site does not
       automatically queue updates of the notesfile.

       Specify -a to have articles which originated in news(1) sent.  News(1)-originated articles will usually reach each system via the news pro-
       gram.

       The  -i option indicates that nfxmit is to send articles to the destination that it normally would not send.  These articles are those that
       were written there or were received at the local site from that particular site.  The -i option is separate from the  timestamp	functions.
       Articles  are  first  selected  on the basis of the time received and criteria for having passed through news or the destination system are
       applied later.

       A timestamp of the last transmission of each notesfile to each system is maintained. This is used for determining the notes to send.  If  a
       different timestamp is desired, use the -t option.  The supplied timestamp is used for this transfer and the stored timestamp is updated.

       Specify	-f  myfile  on	the  command line to have nfxmit read myfile for a list of notesfiles to be sent.  This is useful if the number of
       notesfiles is too numerous to list on a single command line.  The shell meta-characters *, ?, [, and ] are recognized  in  both	the  topic
       parameter and the entries in myfile.

       Nfxmit  uses  uux(I)  to  invoke nfrcv on the remote system in order to process the incoming notes.  Non-uucp connections are supported and
       specified in the file /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how

FILES

       /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.how	    specifies connection methods between systems
       /usr/spool/notes/.utilities/net.alias	    directory containing mapping of local and remote notesfile names
       /usr/spool/notes/.sequencer/Sy:sysname	    Seqeuncing timestamps for sysname.

SEE ALSO

       news(1), notes(1), nfcomment(3), uucp(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							 NFXMIT(8)

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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)

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