SYNOPSIS

nntplist [-x WildSpec] [-o OutputFile] [type]

DESCRIPTION

nntplist provides a convenient interface to the 'LIST' command of an NNTP server, allowing the downloading of information such as lists of newsgroups. It is in fact mostly intended to be used internally by the newsgroups(1) program, which is in turn used by the trn(1) newsreader.

OPTIONS

-x WildSpec

This option allows a wildcard specification to be passed to the server to limit the amount of information produced.

-o OutputFile

This option specifies an output file into which the data from the server is saved. If this option is not given, the default is to write the data to standard output.

type

This specifies the type of information to be obtained from the server. It can be any of the LIST command arguments your server accepts. If type is not specified it defaults to ACTIVE.

EXAMPLES

nntplist -x 'alt.*'

This lists all the alt. newsgroups your newsserver currently handles (ie those in its active file).

AUTHOR

Stan Barber was the original author of nntplist.

Peter Maydell <[email protected]> wrote this manual page.