NAME
aub — Assembles binary files from USENET
SYNOPSIS
aub [option]
DESCRIPTION
aub accesses news either remotely via the NNTP protocol or locally, by
scanning a news spool directory, and searches for new pieces of split,
encoded binaries that have recently been received. Binaries are
expected to contain subject lines conforming to de-facto Usenet
standards; aub may not be able to identify pieces of binaries which are
not named according to accepted conventional practice. If new binaries
are found, aub retrieves, organizes and decodes them, leaving the
decoded files in a configurable location.
OPTIONS
Most of aub’s configuration is done in the it’s main configuration
file, $HOME/.aubconf, which is required. Invoke aub with the -M flag to
learn about the structure of configuration files. This will also
present a full discussion of aub and its capabilities. aub understands
the following options, all of which are discussed in detail in the
internal documentation:
-c Catch-up mode; binaries are processed but not assembled.
-n No-checkpoint mode; the user’s .aubrc file is not modified.
-dN Specifies the debug level that aub is to run at.
-m Prints a summary of the manual.
-M Prints the manual.
-C Lists changes since the last version of aub.
-v Print version number
FILES
~/.aubconf
aub’s main configuration file. This file is required for aub
to run at all. Read the aubconf documentation or run
aub -M to find out more about the structure of this file.
~/.aubrc Historical data maintained by and for aub about which
articles it has assembled into files (or checked and decided
to pass) and which it has not. In the vast majority of cases
you won’t need to touch this file
/usr/bin/perl
The Perl interpreter.
ENVIRONMENT
AUBDIR Default location for decoded binaries
AUBDESC Default location for description file
AUBHOOK Default hook program
NNTPSERVER
Potential NNTP server
HOME Your home directory
AUTHORS
Mark Stantz (No valid email address known)
Brandon Long blong@fiction.net
Avinash Chopde avinash@acm.org
Mako Hill mako@debian.org (responsible for this document)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1992-2002 Mark Stantz, Brandon Long, Avinash Chopde, Mako
Hill
This code is offered as-is. Anyone is welcome to make improvements,
provided that my notice of authorship is retained. I accept no
responsibility for loss or damage caused by this program, nor do I
accept responsibility for supporting it.
SEE ALSO
aubconf(1); the INTRODUCING_AUB document
aub(1)