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Newsstar - Downloads and posts news

Newsstar fetches news and posts it to a local news server: INN and sn are supported. The program can make multiple simultaneous connections, not only to one server, but to several, supporting up to 10 "threads". Before fetching each article, it checks that it hasn't already been downloaded by another thread or in a previous session. It can also "pipeline" article requests to make more efficient use of bandwidth.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.linbury.nildram.co.uk/newsstar.html
Source tarballhttp://www.realh.co.uk/unix/newsstar-0.18.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://www.realh.co.uk/unix/
Version 0.18 (beta) released on 2004-03-19
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Documentation
User guide available in HTML format from http://www.linbury.nildram.co.uk/newsstar.html
Support contacts

Help List<newsstar@realh.co.uk>
Developer List<newsstar@realh.co.uk>
Bug List<newsstar@realh.co.uk>

Project contacts

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Developers

Related information

Interfacesdaemon
Source languagesC, Perl
Use requirementsPerl
Weak prerequisitesncurses, INN, sn
Related programsNewsq

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-02-21
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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