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)

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