dailystrips-update(1) [debian man page]

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)

DAILYSTRIPS(1)						      General Commands Manual						    DAILYSTRIPS(1)

NAME

       dailystrips - view web comic strips more conveniently

SYNOPSIS

       dailystrips [options] stripname...

DESCRIPTION

       This manual page documents briefly the dailystrips command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.

       dailystrips is a Perl script that gathers online comic strips for more convenient viewing.  When in normal mode, it creates  an	HTML  page
       that  references  the  strips  directly,  and  when  in	local mode, it also downloads the images to your local disk.  In local mode, it is
       intended to be run from cron, and for your own private use only -- redistribution of the images may be illegal.

COMIC STRIP DEFINITIONS

       There are three files from which the definitions for comic strips can be read (aside from that specified with the --defs option,  which	is
       read  right  after  the	one  in  /usr/share/dailystrips).  The shipped definition file is in /usr/share/dailystrips/strips.def and is read
       first.  Next, dailystrips reads the system-wide override file in /etc/dailystrips.defs (unless --nosystem is specified), which can hold	an
       updated	definition  file  permitting up to date or locally-specific definitions without having to upgrade the whole package.  Finally, the
       user's own override file in ~/.dailystrips.defs is read (unless --nopersonal is used).  The last definition read has  precedence.   Updated
       strip definitions can be downloaded at <http://dailystrips.sourceforge.net/download.html>.

OPTIONS

       These  programs	follow	the  usual  GNU  command  line	syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is
       included below.	For a complete description, see the README file in /usr/share/doc/dailystrips/.

       -h, --help
	      Show summary of options

       -q, --quiet
	      Turn off progress messages

       --verbose
	      Turns on extra progress information, overrides -q

       --list List available strips

       --random
	      Download a random strip

       --defs FILE
	      Use alternate strips definition file

       --nopersonal
	      Ignore ~/.dailystrips.defs

       --nosystem
	      Ignore system-wide definitions in /etc/dailystrips.defs

       --output FILE
	      Output HTML to FILE instead of STDOUT (does not apply to local mode)

       --lite Output a reduced HTML page

       --stripnav
	      Add links for navigation within the page

       --titles STRING
	      Customize HTML output

       -l, --local
	      Output HTML to file and save strips locally

       --noindex
	      Disable symlinking current page to index.html (local mode only)

       -a, --archive
	      Generate archive.html as a list of all days (local mode only)

       -d, --dailydir
	      Create a separate directory for each day's images (local mode only)

       --stripdir
	      Create a separate directory for each strip's images (local mode only)

       -s, --save
	      If it appears that a particular strip has been downloaded, does not attempt to re-download it (local mode only)

       --nostale
	      If a new strip is not available, displays an error in the HTML output instead of showing the old image

       --nosymlinks
	      Do not use symlinks for day-to-day duplicates

       --date DATE
	      Use value DATE instead of local time (DATE is parsed by Date::Parse function, not available on Win32)

       --avantgo
	      Format images for viewing with Avantgo on PDAs

       --basedir DIR
	      Work in specified directory instead of current directory (program will look here for strip definitions, previous	HTML  files,  etc.
	      and save new files here)

       --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

       --nospaces
	      Remove spaces from image filenames (local mode only)

       --useragent STRING
	      Set User-Agent: header to STRING (default is none)

       --retries NUM
	      When downloading items, retry NUM times instead of default 3 times

       --clean NUM
	      Keep only the latest NUM days of files; remove all older files

       -v, --version
	      Print version number

SEE ALSO

       README,	README.DEFS.gz (to add strips to the database), and README.LOCAL (for more details about 'local' operation) in /usr/share/doc/dai-
       lystrips/.

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(1)