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YPOSTRC(5)			  File Formats			      YPOSTRC(5)

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  in-
	    stead 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 connect-
	    ing.

     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 annoy-
	    ing.  The extensions listed are not case sensitive.

     user=username
	    Provide username for authentication to the news server when connect-
	    ing.

     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)

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