Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!MIX!Blackbird From: billy@MIX.COM Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 06:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Organization: PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <1lmqa29.k4rshchnvytzN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: panix5.panix.com X-Trace: reader2.panix.com 1402209042 22191 166.84.1.5 (8 Jun 2014 06:30:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@panix.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2014 06:30:42 +0000 (UTC) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.apps:22487 comp.sys.mac.system:60463 Darrin Doc O'Leary wrote: > Name me a single other newsreader that has factored out the > NNTP bits for reuse. Why would anyone want to do this? > Show me anywhere I can use curl on the command like to fetch > a news: or nntp: URL. Again, why would anyone want to do this? > If it exists, I haven't seen it. lynx news:'lmvire$u2h$1@dont-email.me' works. curl is a tool to transfer data from or to a server, using one of the supported protocols (DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP). Do you see news or nntp in the above list? I didn't think so. It's a piece of cake with, for example, perl (794 bytes in 56 lines), though. Billy Y.. -- sub #'9+1 ,r0 ; convert ascii byte add #9.+1 ,r0 ; to an integer bcc 20$ ; not a number