diff docs/noffle.1 @ 477:48be71391b9d noffle

[svn] * docs/noffle.1,src/noffle.c: When outputing the entire message base using 'noffle --article all', ditch the previous casual header for each article and switch to the 'rnews' format.
author bears
date Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:27:20 +0100
parents fb8cadeed4d4
children a04c52f87b6e
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--- a/docs/noffle.1	Tue Mar 16 11:44:43 2004 +0000
+++ b/docs/noffle.1	Fri Jul 09 16:27:20 2004 +0100
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .TH noffle 1
-.\" $Id: noffle.1 619 2003-10-31 15:54:59Z godisch $
+.\" $Id: noffle.1 624 2004-07-09 15:27:20Z bears $
 .SH NAME
 noffle \- Usenet package optimized for dialup connections.
 
@@ -136,7 +136,13 @@
 the leading '<' and trailing '>' (quote the argument to avoid shell
 interpretation of '<' and '>').
 .br
-If "all" is given as message Id, all articles are shown. 
+If "all" is given as message Id, all articles are written using the
+.B rnews
+news batch format. In the format, recognised by the UUCP
+.BR rnews (1)
+program, each article is prefixed with a header line. The line
+consists of '#! rnews <len>', where <len> is the size of the
+entire message including headers in bytes.
 
 .TP
 .B \-c, \-\-cancel <message id>
@@ -441,6 +447,7 @@
 .SH SEE ALSO
 
 .BR inews (1),
+.BR rnews (1)
 .BR noffle.conf (5),
 .BR crond (8),
 .BR inetd (8),