Re: newsrc files

2001-10-24 Thread MJ Ray
> I'd use NNTP to access the news source. Python includes a pretty > complete NNTP library (nttplib.py) as part of the standard library. Yes, I definitely will. The spool just happened to be handy as I was writing the first version. What I'm really interested in is what on non-Unix systems use

Re: newsrc files

2001-10-24 Thread Bill Janssen
I'd use NNTP to access the news source. Python includes a pretty complete NNTP library (nttplib.py) as part of the standard library. Bill

Re: newsrc files

2001-10-24 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I've written it mostly in python because all systems using plucker > should have python installed, right? I don't think anyone has won that thumb-wrestling match yet =)

Re: newsrc files

2001-10-24 Thread MJ Ray
David: > > I'm writing a tool to pluck news. Do any non-Unix newsreaders hold > > articles in a spool-like structure and use newsrc files? > There was a perl script out there awhile back that someone > specifically wrote to put news directly into Sitescooper and Plu

Re: newsrc files

2001-10-24 Thread David A. Desrosiers
> I'm writing a tool to pluck news. Do any non-Unix newsreaders hold > articles in a spool-like structure and use newsrc files? There was a perl script out there awhile back that someone specifically wrote to put news directly into Sitescooper and Plucker. I know I posted

newsrc files

2001-10-24 Thread MJ Ray
Hi, I'm writing a tool to pluck news. Do any non-Unix newsreaders hold articles in a spool-like structure and use newsrc files? If they do, I'll try to write the one shell script currently controlling the build of the HTML tree in python instead. If not, I'll just document