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ARCHIVE(8)							    ARCHIVE(8)

NAME
       archive - Usenet article archiver

SYNOPSIS
       archive [ -a archive ] [ -f ] [ -i index ] [ -m ] [ -r ] [ input ]

DESCRIPTION
       Archive	makes  copies of files specified on its standard input.	 It is
       normally run either as a channel feed under innd(8),  or	 by  a	script
       before expire(8) is run.

       Archive	reads  the  named  input file, or standard input if no file is
       given.  The input is taken as a set of lines.  Blank  lines  and	 lines
       starting	 with  a  number  sign	(``#'')	 are ignored.  All other lines
       should specify the name of a file to archive.  If a filename is not  an
       absolute pathname, it is taken to be relative to /var/spool/news/spool.

       Files   are  copied  to	a  directory  within  the  archive  directory,
       /var/spool/news/news.archive.  The default is  to  create  a  hierarchy
       that  mimics  the input files; intermediate directories will be created
       as needed.  For example, the input file comp/sources/unix/2211 (article
       2211   in   the	 newsgroup   comp.sources.unix)	  will	be  copied  to
       /var/spool/news/news.archive/comp/sources/unix/2211.   If  the	``-f''
       flag is used, then all directory names will be flattened out, replacing
       the slashes with periods.  In this case, the file would	be  copied  to
       /var/spool/news/news.archive/comp.sources.unix/2211.

       If  the	``-i''	flag is used, then archive will append one line to the
       specified index file for each article that it copies.  This  line  will
       contain the destination name and the Message-ID and Subject headers.

       For  example, a typical newsfeeds(5) entry to archive most source news‐
       groups is as follows:
	      source-archive\
		   :!*,*sources*,!*wanted*,!*.d\
		   :Tc,Wn\
		   :/usr/contrib/news/archive -f -i \
		       /usr/spool/news/news.archive/INDEX

       Files are copied by making a link.  If that fails a new	file  is  cre‐
       ated.   If the ``-m'' flag is used, then the file will be copied to the
       destination, and the input file will be replaced with a	symbolic  link
       pointing to the new file.

       By     default,	   archive     sets	its    standard	   error    to
       /var/spool/news/data/errlog.  To suppress  this	redirection,  use  the
       ``-r'' flag.

       If the input is exhausted, archive will exit with a zero status.	 If an
       I/O error occures, it will try to spool its  input,  copying  it	 to  a
       file.   If  there  was  no  input  filename, the standard input will be
       copied to /var/spool/news/out.going/archive and the program will	 exit.
       If  an  input  filename was given, a temporary file named input.bch (if
       input is an absolute pathname)  or  /var/spool/news/out.going/input.bch
       (if  the	 filename  does	 not begin with a slash) is created.  Once the
       input is copied, archive will try to rename this temporary file	to  be
       the name of the input file, and then exit.

HISTORY
       Written	by  Rich  $alz <rsalz@uunet.uu.net> for InterNetNews.  This is
       revision 1.8, dated 1992/08/19.

SEE ALSO
       newsfeeds(5).

								    ARCHIVE(8)
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