BBFEED

Section: TWENEX User Manuals (1)
Updated: JANUARY 2010
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NAME

bbfeed - read rss or atom feeds  

SYNOPSIS

bbfeed [-hV] [-f file ]  

DESCRIPTION

bbfeed Reads rss/atom feeds and stores them in a mailbox, currently only the mbox (mboxo) format is supported. The retro-ui is inspired by bboard(1) the bulletin board found at the SDF Public Access UNIX system. More information on sdf can be found at http://sdf.lonestar.org.  

OPTION

-f file
Use the alternate configuration file file instead of ~/.bbfeedrc. It overrides the BBFEED_CONF environment variable.
-h
Display a usage message and exit
-V
Display the version used.
 

CONFIGURATION

(B)ROWSER
       A shell command to open the url in $1, this option asks for a
complete shell command like that must be quoted, the url is set in the first positional paramter and should be quoted ie: lynx "$1"
 

FILES

~/.bbfeedrc
The default configuration file. See bbfeedrc(5) for further details.
 

ENVIRONMENT

BBFEED_CONF
If non-null the full pathname for an alternate configuration file .bbfeedrc. Overridden by the -f option.
http_proxy
It can be set to a url of the form http://a.proxy:80 to fetch the feeds via a proxy.
 

BUGS

Only one mailbox format is currently supported.

bbfeedrc(5) is not written yet.  

AUTHOR

Pierre Gaston <pierre.gaston at gmail dot com>  

SEE ALSO

bboard(1),


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTION
CONFIGURATION
FILES
ENVIRONMENT
BUGS
AUTHOR
SEE ALSO

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