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# Title      :	getart - get news article by file name
# Author     :	Heiner Steven <heiner.steven@odn.de>
# Date       :	1995
# Requires   :	icat
# Category   :	News
# SCCS-Id.   :	@(#) getart	1.2 03/12/19
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# Description
#
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PN=`basename "$0"`			# Program name
VER='1.2'

: ${NEWSSPOOL:=/var/spool/news}

usage () {
    echo >&2 "$PN - get news article by file name $VER (stv '95)
usage: $PN newsgroup.article [...]

i.e. $PN comp.unix.shell.10023"
    exit 1
}

msg () {
    for i
    do echo "$PN: $i" >&2
    done
}

fatal () { msg "$@"; exit 1; }

# Check arguments before setting them
getopt h "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1	|| usage
set -- `getopt h "$@"`
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
    case "$1" in
					# your flags here
	--)	shift; break;;
	-h)	usage;;
	-*)	usage;;
	*)	break;;			# first file name
    esac
    shift
done

for Article
do
    File=`echo "$Article" | sed 's:\.:/:g'`
    [ -r "$File" ] || File=$NEWSSPOOL/$File
    if [ -r "$File" ]
    then
	icat "$File"
    else
        fatal "cannot get article $File"
    fi
done