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DAILYSTRIPS(1) General Commands Manual DAILYSTRIPS(1)

NAME

dailystrips - view web comic strips more conveniently

SYNOPSIS

dailystrips [options] stripname...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the dailystrips command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page.

dailystrips is a Perl script that gathers online comic strips for more convenient viewing. When in normal mode, it creates an HTML page that references the strips directly, and when in local mode, it also downloads the images to your local disk. In local mode, it is intended to be run from cron, and for your own private use only -- redistribution of the images may be illegal.

COMIC STRIP DEFINITIONS

There are three files from which the definitions for comic strips can be read (aside from that specified with the --defs option, which is read right after the one in /usr/share/dailystrips). The shipped definition file is in /usr/share/dailystrips/strips.def and is read first. Next, dailystrips reads the system-wide override file in /etc/dailystrips.defs (unless --nosystem is specified), which can hold an updated definition file permitting up to date or locally-specific definitions without having to upgrade the whole package. Finally, the user's own override file in ~/.dailystrips.defs is read (unless --nopersonal is used). The last definition read has precedence. Updated strip definitions can be downloaded at <http://dailystrips.sourceforge.net/download.html>.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the README file in /usr/share/doc/dailystrips/.

Show summary of options
Turn off progress messages
Turns on extra progress information, overrides -q
List available strips
Download a random strip
Use alternate strips definition file
Ignore ~/.dailystrips.defs
Ignore system-wide definitions in /etc/dailystrips.defs
Output HTML to FILE instead of STDOUT (does not apply to local mode)
Output a reduced HTML page
Add links for navigation within the page
Customize HTML output
Output HTML to file and save strips locally
Disable symlinking current page to index.html (local mode only)
Generate archive.html as a list of all days (local mode only)
Create a separate directory for each day's images (local mode only)
Create a separate directory for each strip's images (local mode only)
If it appears that a particular strip has been downloaded, does not attempt to re-download it (local mode only)
If a new strip is not available, displays an error in the HTML output instead of showing the old image
Do not use symlinks for day-to-day duplicates
Use value DATE instead of local time (DATE is parsed by Date::Parse function, not available on Win32)
Format images for viewing with Avantgo on PDAs
Work in specified directory instead of current directory (program will look here for strip definitions, previous HTML files, etc. and save new files here)
Use specified HTTP proxy server (overrides environment proxy, if set)
Set username and password for proxy server
Ignore the http_proxy environment variable, if set
Remove spaces from image filenames (local mode only)
Set User-Agent: header to STRING (default is none)
When downloading items, retry NUM times instead of default 3 times
Keep only the latest NUM days of files; remove all older files
Print version number

SEE ALSO

README, README.DEFS.gz (to add strips to the database), and README.LOCAL (for more details about 'local' operation) in /usr/share/doc/dailystrips/.

AUTHOR

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

June 25, 2004