.TH ngetlite 1 "16 May 2002"
.SH NAME
ngetlite \- retrieve files from NNTP hosts
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ngetlite <listfiles...>
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B ngetlite
retrieves messages as described in each listfile.  Listfiles are generated with:
.br
.B nget \-w <listfile> <retrieval args>
.PP
In almost all circumstances, you will want to download and decode directly with nget.
However, in some cases
ngetlite can be useful on computers with low ram or cpu, that can't handle the large cache
files needed for some groups.  You can run nget \-w on some other computer and then do 
the actual downloading with ngetlite using very little resources.
.SH EXAMPLES
The following sequence of commands demonstrates a typical usage:
.br
nget \-w foo.list \-G alt.foo \-r "\\.png"
.br
ngetlite foo.list
.br
nget \-N \-G alt.foo \-r "\\.png"
.SH ENVIRONMENT
.PP
.IP "NGETLITE_TIMEOUT"
Socket timeout value in seconds.
.IP "NGETLITE_TRIES"
Max number of attempts per article.
.SH AUTHOR
Matthew Mueller <donut AT dakotacom.net>
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR nget (1)