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NAME
       ~/.ypostrc - ypost configuration file

DESCRIPTION
       This file, located in the user's home directory and called .ypostrc, is
       read by the ypost(1) program at startup.  The options in this file may
       be overwritten by command line options.

       It might look like this:

              ## ~/.ypostrc
              ## ypost configuration file

              ## My login information
              user = user1234
              pass = IloveUnix
              server = news.example.com

       Each line in the file may contain a configuration option (described in
       the OPTIONS section of this man page) in the form of an option name,
       follwed by an equal sign (`=') followed by the value for that option.
       Option lines with blank values are ignored, as well as all text
       following a hash mark (`#'), and empty lines.

OPTIONS
       The following options are available to control the behavior of ypost at
       run-time.  Options that take a BOOL value are enabled with any of `y',
       `yes', `on', or `1' and disabled with any other value.

       author=author
              When posting messages, use author in the Usenet From: header.
              See ypost(1) for permissible syntax.

       debug=BOOL
              Enable debug output?

       comment=comment
              When posting messages, suffix subject lines with comment,
              enclosed in square brackets.

       force=BOOL
              When posting messages, skip confirmation of posting summary?

       group=newsgroup
              Post messages to the specified newsgroup.

       line=length
              Use length as the line length for encoded data.

       messageid=BOOL
              Include the Message-ID: header line when posting?

       multipart=lines
              Split large files after the number of lines specified by lines
              instead of 5000, which is the default.

       nosort=BOOL
              Inhibit sorting of input files before posting messages?

       paths=BOOL
              Store paths in archives as they were specified on the command
              line?  If on, do not strip paths.

       pass=password
              Provide password for authentication to the news server when
              connecting.

       quiet=BOOL
              Operate as quietly as possible?

       retry=retries
              Specify the number of retries that should be attempted if a post
              fails.

       subject=subject
              When posting messages, prefix subject lines with subject,
              enclosed in square brackets.

       server=address
              Post all messages through the news server specified by address.

       stdout=BOOL
              Output to the standard output, instead of posting messages
              through a server?

       timeout=seconds
              Socket operations should time out after this many seconds.  A
              value of `0' will disable the timeout.

       sortfirst=extensions
              extensions should be a comma-separated list of extensions that
              will come first when sorting.  The built-in default value for
              this field is `nfo,crc,sfv,par,rar,zip,arj,ace'.  This causes
              files like .nfo and .sfv files to be posted first, as well as
              causing .rar files to be posted before .r00 files, instead of at
              the end, which is annoying.  The extensions listed are not case
              sensitive.

       user=username
              Provide username for authentication to the news server when
              connecting.

       sfv=BOOL
              Post an .sfv file for the input files?

       crc=BOOL
              Post a .crc file for the input files?

AUTHOR
       Don Moore <bboy@bboy.net>

SEE ALSO
       ypost(1), yencode(1), ydecode(1)

yencode                           March 2002                        YPOSTRC(5)