[comp.lang.perl] sample code wanted to cope with news HISTORY file, NNTP server

emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) (12/17/89)

Hi.

I'm writing some code to fetch articles by ID, and if someone could
send me stuff that knows how to deal with the history file and how
to talk to an NNTP server that could save me some wheel re-inventing.

The idea being to write something so you could say
	article "<12345@blurfl.org>"
and it would feed you that article on standard out, by some means
even it if meant queueing a tape mount request somewhere or fetching
it from a remote server.

Thanks much, I will share whatever I come up with if it's useful.

--Ed