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From:
[email protected] (Rodger Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.perl
Subject: Announcing: News::NNTPClient version 0.15
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Date: 19 May 1995 04:02:28 GMT
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Announcing: News::NNTPClient version 0.15
A Perl 5 module to talk to NNTP (RFC977) servers.
This module implements a client interface to NNTP, enabling a perl
application to talk to NNTP servers. It uses the OOP interface
introduced with perl5.
Here is a short example. It prints all articles in the news group
"test" newer than one hour.
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use News::NNTPClient;
$c = new News::NNTPClient;
foreach ($c->newnews("test", time - 3600)) {
print $c->article($_);
}
__END__
All the standard and most of the non-standard NNTP commands are
implemented as "methods". Those commands that generate multiple lines
return either an array of lines or a reference to an array of lines,
depending on context. Other commands return whatever would likely be
useful. For example, the stat method returns a Message-ID if
successful. All commands return a false value if they fail.
News::NNTPClient.pm may be found at:
ftp://metronet.com/pub/perl/perl5/extensions/NNTPClient-0.15
or you may send me mail at
[email protected] with the body of the
message beginning with:
send nntpclient
Install in:
<perl5lib>/News/NNTPClient.pm
where <perl5lib> is often /usr/local/lib/perl5.
Be sure to strip off anything before the ---cut---here--- line.
The documentation is in pod format as part of the module. To view
with nroff, try this:
pod2man NNTPClient.pm | nroff -man | less
--
Rodger Anderson
