Subject: New 'better' perl getnews
From: Peter Bruells <[email-masked]>
Date: 11 Jun 1995 23:41:46 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.lang.perl

Hello!

I've been using pgnews, the perl get news program by Jeffrey
B. McGough, for quite some time, but rewrote it ever since to suit my
ever-chaning needs. Anyway, last Monday I stripped it down to its
skeleton and started all over.

>From the man-page:

DESCRIPTION
       pb_getnews   connects  to  a  news  server,  requests  and
       receives new articles (since the last  access)  and  saves
       the messages to a local news spool.

       o Fully configurable by a single file of any given name.

       o Requests cross posted articles only once, thus avoiding
       wasting bandwidth.

       o Saves disk space by using hard links on cross postings.

       o Creates its own X-Ref line, if necessary.

If you need such a thing you can find it under
http://www.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de:8888/pb_getnews.uue.

I believe it to be reasonably stable, but I'd appreciate any
feedback...

Regards

Peter Bruells