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!

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Are you sure that's what you need?  Check out the Net::NNTP module.

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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