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Re: need powerful linux news client
- To: Happy Linux Campers <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
- Subject: Re: need powerful linux news client
- From: Miki Shapiro <aris(at-nospam)pharoe.com>
- Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 14:15:30 +0300 (IDT)
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If it will come down to implementing it, I'll use perl.
First, I wanna make sure there isn't something in existance that does this
out-of-the-box.
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On Sun, 20 May 2001, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> On Sun, 20 May 2001, Miki Shapiro wrote:
>
> > Hi all
> >
> > 1. Thx Eli/Ilya for answer on back-resolving a coupla days back. It hit
> > the spot :-)
> >
> > 2. Can someone recommend a news client for linux that can run over whole
> > newsgroups and automatically download attachments answering to certain
> > naming criteria? something like News Agent or Xnews for Windows? I don't
> > care for a GUI (I handle most of this box via SSH) but I need solid
> > functionality.
> >
>
> Well, perl has an NNTP module. So with some hacking, you can program
> something that will do just like that, based on regular expressions or
> whatever. Do you know perl? If not, I think python, Tcl, Ruby, etc. also
> have similar functionality. One of them should do the job.
>
> Otherwise you can try STFEing Freshmeat or Google.
>
> Regards,
>
> Shlomi Fish
>
> BTW, I think I'm getting too used to the "STFE" term. It might leak out of
> Linux-IL...
>
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ---= Miki Shapiro =------------------
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> >
> > "If at first you don't succeed...
> > .. Skydiving is probbably not for you."
> >
> >
> >
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