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1.1     ! root        1: .\"
        !             2: .\" @(#)getactive.dst  1.2     (Berkeley) 10/15/87
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        !             4: .TH GETACTIVE 1 "8 July 1987"
        !             5: .UC 4
        !             6: .SH NAME
        !             7: getactive \- retrieve the active file from the remote news server
        !             8: .SH SYNOPSIS
        !             9: .B RNLIB/getactive filename
        !            10: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !            11: .I Getactive
        !            12: retrieves the newsgroup ``active file'' (which contains
        !            13: the list of all known newsgroups and their high/low message
        !            14: numbers) from the news server on a remote machine and
        !            15: places it in
        !            16: .I filename.
        !            17: .PP
        !            18: The normal use is in support of shell scripts (such as
        !            19: .I newsgroups
        !            20: or
        !            21: .I newsetup )
        !            22: which have been taken from existing software, such
        !            23: as
        !            24: .I rn.
        !            25: When used in such scripts, the active file is usually
        !            26: retrieved into a temporary file such as
        !            27: .IR /tmp/active.$$ ,
        !            28: and should be deleted before the shell script exits.
        !            29: .PP
        !            30: The active file is retrieved from the machine
        !            31: listed in the file SERVERFILE, which is
        !            32: defined by the constant
        !            33: SERVER_FILE in
        !            34: .I common/conf.h
        !            35: in thef NNTP source directory.
        !            36: The environment variable NNTPSERVER can be used to
        !            37: override this choice.
        !            38: .SH AUTHOR
        !            39: Phil Lapsley

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