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/.
-h, --help
Show summary of options
-q, --quiet
Turn off progress messages
--verbose
Turns on extra progress information, overrides -q
--list List available strips
--random
Download a random strip
--defs FILE
Use alternate strips definition file
--nopersonal
Ignore ~/.dailystrips.defs
--nosystem
Ignore system-wide definitions in /etc/dailystrips.defs
--output FILE
Output HTML to FILE instead of STDOUT (does not apply to local
mode)
--lite Output a reduced HTML page
--stripnav
Add links for navigation within the page
--titles STRING
Customize HTML output
-l, --local
Output HTML to file and save strips locally
--noindex
Disable symlinking current page to index.html (local mode only)
-a, --archive
Generate archive.html as a list of all days (local mode only)
-d, --dailydir
Create a separate directory for each day’s images (local mode
only)
--stripdir
Create a separate directory for each strip’s images (local mode
only)
-s, --save
If it appears that a particular strip has been downloaded, does
not attempt to re-download it (local mode only)
--nostale
If a new strip is not available, displays an error in the HTML
output instead of showing the old image
--nosymlinks
Do not use symlinks for day-to-day duplicates
--date DATE
Use value DATE instead of local time (DATE is parsed by
Date::Parse function, not available on Win32)
--avantgo
Format images for viewing with Avantgo on PDAs
--basedir DIR
Work in specified directory instead of current directory
(program will look here for strip definitions, previous HTML
files, etc. and save new files here)
--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
--nospaces
Remove spaces from image filenames (local mode only)
--useragent STRING
Set User-Agent: header to STRING (default is none)
--retries NUM
When downloading items, retry NUM times instead of default 3
times
--clean NUM
Keep only the latest NUM days of files; remove all older files
-v, --version
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