
Is there a command-line Usenet newsreader available?
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>Hi everyone. I need to write a perl script to automate some tasks, but
>I need a command-line Usenet newsreader that can take the name of a
>Usenet news group to get as well as the number of messages to retrieve,
>and then return these messages and quit. I know that there are a number
>of excellent Usenet readers, like trn and tin, but these all have user
>interfaces while I need a command-line interface. Can anyone tell me
>where to get a command-line newsreader that can take command-line
>your help!
Your question really doesn't have much to do with perl does it?
However, News::NNTPClient might be of interest to you.
Something like :
my $client = new News::NNTPClient("","",0);
$client->group($group);
print $client->article($article);
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Sam
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