" -v verbose (print interaction with news server)\n" .
" -d direct output (don't consider using PAGER)\n" .
" -a dump all articles in group to stdout as mbox\n" .
+ " -b return current bounds on group's article numbers\n" .
" also: nntpid --version report version number\n" .
" nntpid --help display this help text\n" .
" nntpid --licence display (MIT) licence text\n";
$verbose = 1, next if $1 eq "v";
$pager = 0, next if $1 eq "d";
$mode = 'all', next if $1 eq "a";
+ $mode = 'bounds', next if $1 eq "b";
if ($1 eq "-help") {
print STDERR $usage;
exit 0;
# normal ones..
die "nntpid: -a expected exactly one argument\n" if @ARGV != 1;
$group = $ARGV[0];
+} elsif ($mode eq 'bounds') {
+ # -b has similar command-line semantics to -a.
+ die "nntpid: -b expected exactly one argument\n" if @ARGV != 1;
+ $group = $ARGV[0];
} elsif (!@ARGV) {
# We will read article ids from standard input once we've connected
# to the NNTP server.
$fatal = 0; # ignore failure to retrieve any given article
for ($mid = $numbers[1]; $mid <= $numbers[2]; $mid++) {
$art = &getart("$group:$mid");
- $art =~ s/\n(>*From )/\n>$1/gs;
- print "From nntpid ".(localtime)."\n".$art."\n";
+ if (defined $art) {
+ $art =~ s/\n(>*From )/\n>$1/gs;
+ print "From nntpid ".(localtime)."\n".$art."\n";
+ }
}
+} elsif ($mode eq 'bounds') {
+ # Write out the bounds of the group's article numbers.
+ $numbers = &docmd("GROUP $group");
+ @numbers = split / /, $numbers;
+ print "$numbers[1] $numbers[2]\n";
} elsif ($mode eq 'stdin') {
while (<>) {
chomp;
&connect;
my $art = &getart($mid);
+ return unless defined $art;
if ($pager and -t STDOUT) {
# Close the NNTP connection before invoking the pager, in case the