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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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