NAME
trn-artchk - check a news article’s validity
SYNOPSIS
trn-artchk article maxLineLen newsgroupsFile activeFile
DESCRIPTION
trn-artchk will check an article intended for posting to USENET for
validity, printing warnings if problems are found. As the name
implies, it’s mostly intended to be used internally by the trn(1)
newsreader.
It will check the article for a variety of problems, including overlong
lines, incorrect header syntax, missing trailing newline and attempt to
post to invalid newsgroups. It will print a summary of groups the
article is intended for, with descriptions.
OPTIONS
article
This should be the file containing the article to check.
maxLineLen
should be the maximum line length to accept. A warning will be
issued if the article contains any lines longer than this.
newsgroupsFile
should be a newsgroups file in the standard format used by NNTP
servers. If the file is not found, trn-artchk will attempt to
make an NNTP connection to obtain the information. Note that
even if it is desired to obtain the information from the server
this article must still be present, as a placeholder.
activeFile
should be an NNTP server active file. The same notes apply to
this as to the argument.
AUTHOR
Wayne Davison, Stan Barber and Larry Wall are all candidates for
authorship of trn-artchk; its provenance is uncertain.
Peter Maydell <pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote this manual page.
SEE ALSO
trn(1)
September 1999 TRN-ARTCHK(1)