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NAME

listftndb - List information from an Fidonet/FTN SQL database

VERSION

Version 0.12

DESCRIPTION

List information from a Fidonet/FTN St. Louis Format Nodelist to a text file. One such listing can be from a specific net from a specific zone of a nodelist table.

SYNOPSIS

listftndb [-t nodelisttablename] [-T db_type] [-D db_name] [-u db_user] [-p db_password] [-z zone] [-n net] [-o outfile] [-v] [-h]

OPTIONS

-x

Debug option.

-v

Verbose option.

-T

Database type. This needs to be a database type for which a DBD module exists, the type being the name as used in the DBD module. The default type is SQLite.

-D

Database name. For an SQLite databse; this needs to be at least the filename and can also include a path, and defaults to the file name ftndbttst.

-u

Database user. For an SQLite database, this defaults to an empty string as it does not need it.

-p

Database password. For an SQLite database, this defaults to an empty string as it does not need it.

-t

The nodelist table name to be used. Note that if there is a period in the name, that period will be changed to an underscore.

-z

If set; is the FTN Zone number, with 1 being the default.

-n

If set; is the FTN Net number, with 1 being the default.

-o

Output file. This needs to be at least the filename and can also include a path. The default output file is outfile.txt in the current directory.

EXAMPLE

Given that $DBFILE is an SQLite database file and that $LISTFILE is a file where the information is to be listed, the following command line can be used to list the nodes in Net 102 of Zone 1 in that file:

listftndb -D $DBFILE -z 1 -n 102 -o $LISTFILE -v

AUTHOR

Robert James Clay, <jame at rocasa.us>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-ftn-database at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=FTN-Database. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc listftndb

You can also look for information at:

SEE ALSO

L<FTN::Database>, L<FTN::Database::Nodelist>, L<ftndbadm>,
L<ftndbadm>, and L<nl2ftndb>

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2010 Robert James Clay, all rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.