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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 newsgroupsFile 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)