NAME

News::NNTPClient - Perl 5 module to talk to NNTP (RFC977) server

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a client interface to NNTP, enabling a Perl 5
application to talk to NNTP servers.  It uses the OOP (Object Oriented
Programming) interface introduced with Perl 5.

CHANGES

RELEASED TO CPAN
0.28 Added GMT.  Use gmt() method to set to GMT mode.

0.27 Delete reference to fetch by e-mail.  Most fetch from CPAN now.

RELEASED TO CPAN
0.26 Moved initialization to separate subroutine so it may be sub-classed.

0.25 General cleanup and update to use Socket-1.5 and perl 5.002.

0.24 Moved documentation to end of module.

0.23 Created README, changed $version to $VERSION, started using Makefile.PL.

RELEASED TO CPAN
0.22 Better failure handling.

0.21 Made hostname lookup less strict.

0.20 Fixed message(), created internal msg(), changed date() and xpath() to
     use msg().

0.19 Updated documentation.

0.18 Allow null responses, report garbled responses.

RELEASED TO CPAN
0.17 Updated documentation.

0.16 Fixed bug in debug initialization.

...

INSTALLATION

To install News::NNTPClient, perform the following steps.  You'll
likely need to have system administration (a.k.a root, super-user)
privilege to perform any of these steps:

    perl Makefile.PL
    make
    make install

If that doesn't do it for you, you can try the following manual steps:

Copy NNTPClient.pm to perl5lib, where perl5lib is your local Perl 5
library directory, usually /usr/local/lib/perl5.  You'll likely have
to create the News directory, as the perl5 distribution doesn't
normally include it.  Be sure to give everyone read permission on the
file and read/execute permission on the directory.

    umask 022
    mkdir /usr/local/lib/perl5/News
    cp NNTPClient.pm /usr/local/lib/perl5/News

You could then run the following to create a man page:

    cd /usr/local/lib/perl5/News
    pod2man NNTPClient.pm > /usr/local/man/man1/NNTPClient.1

AUTHOR

Rodger V. Anderson  <rodger@boi.hp.com>

SOURCE

The latest version may be retrieved from your nearest CPAN
(Comprehensive Perl Archive Network) site, in the directory
CPAN/modules/by-module/News.  A list of CPAN sites can be found at:

    http://www.perl.com/perl/CPAN/CPAN.html

You might also try:

    http://www.perl/com/CPAN/modules/by-module/News

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995 Rodger Anderson. All rights reserved.  This module
is free software; you may redistribute and/or modify it under the same
terms as Perl itself.
