dailystrips-update(1)

NAME

dailystrips-update - download updated dailystrips definitions

SYNOPSIS

dailystrips-update [OPTIONS] DAYS

WARNING

This script is intended to use under the assumption that the development version of strips.def is the latest and best. Unfortunately, at the time of this writing (August, 2007) upstream development seems to have ceased, so using this script will likely result in a more out-ofdate strips definiton than is included in the distribution.

DESCRIPTION

The dailystrips-update script is provided to automatically retrieve updated strip definitions from a central server, eliminating the need to manually download and install new versions of the entire program.

It is recommened that the dailystrips-update script be run before each execution of the main dailystrips program. The dailystrips-update script has provisions to only check for updates if the current file has reached a certain age, which maximizes efficiency and should allow users to run the update script before each execution of dailystrips without overtaxing the update server.

USAGE

Operation is straightforward. Simply execute dailystrips-update and the updated definitions will be saved to ~/.dailystrips-updates.def, which will automatically be loaded by the main dailystrips program.

OPTIONS

-q, --quiet

Turn off progress messages

-v, --verbose

Turn on extra progress information, overrides -q

--proxy host:port

Use specified HTTP proxy server (overrides environment proxy, if set)

--proxyauth user:pass

Set username and password for proxy server

--noenvproxy

Ignore the http_proxy environment variable, if set

--retries NUM

When downloading items, make NUM attempts instead of only once

--updates FILE

Save updates to FILE instead of ~/.dailystrips-updates.def

--minage NUM

Skip downloading updates if local file is less than NUM seconds old

-V, --version

Print version number

-h, --help

Show summary of options

SEE ALSO

dailystrips(1)

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Rene Weber <rene_debmaint@public.email.elvenlord.com>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

June 25, 2004 DAILYSTRIPS-UPDATE(1)