Documentation for a Tcllib module that allows one to interact as a client using nntp can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/nntp.html
RFC 977 [L1 ] governs NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol.)
The following software packages attempt to use nntp:
What: knews Where: http://avonlea.kanga.org/tcl/ [[This url currently not active - anyone have an updated one?]] Description: Proof of concept NNTP server written in itcl. Updated: 05/2000 Contact: mailto:[email protected] What: newsflash Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/newsflash-0.2/newsflash-0.2.tar.gz Description: A NNTP newsreader written using Tcl/Tk. It has article threading, multiple newsrc files, article decoding. It does not yet support killfiles, moderated newsgroup posting, email replies, multi-article save/uudecode, searching, or documentation. Requires Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0, BLT 1.7, [incr tcl] 1.5 and tcl-dp 3.2. Updated: 02/1997 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Koert Zeilstra) What: Newsspy Where: ftp://134.93.129.91/pub/newsspy/newsspy-1.0.tgz [[No longer at this URL - anyone have an updated one?]] Description: A Tcl program to connect to a NNTP news server and scan article headers for special keywords. If found, read article and append to a file. Can be invoked from cron. Contact: mailto:[email protected] (hofmann) What: TclNNTPD Where: http://www.utcorp.net/opensource/tclnntpd/ Description: Tcl script NNTP news server, conforming to RFC 822, 977, 1036, supporting some common NNTP extensions, authentication, newsgroup mirroring, etc. Currently at version 0.9 . Updated: 10/2001 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Scott Reilly) What: xnewscan Where: From the contact Description: xnewscan is a Tk interface to the newscan program, which scans an NNTP server using user provided patterns for matching articles. This is now part of the newscan 2.0 release. Contact: mailto:[email protected] (John McGowan) What: nntp Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/net/NNTP/0.01/ Description: Tcl only NNTP client library sufficient to create a simple news reader. Minimal testing done to date. Updated: 09/1999 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Neil D. McKay)
The following attempt to provide access to news articles:
What: arTCLs Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/artcls/artcls.tar.gz Description: a Tcl/Tk-based Usenet news reader Updated: 02/1997 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Mike Hoegeman)
What: newselect Where: http://www2.awinc.com/users/bvdpoel/ Description: Tcl/Tk program that uses the existing Netscape newsgroup database
to view the available newsgroups and pick the ones to which you
wish to subscribe and adds them to your Netscape newsrc file.
Works with Tcl 7.x/Tk 4.x.Updated: 11/1996 Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Bob van der Poel)
What: nn-tk
Where: http://www.general.uwa.edu.au/u/toivo/nn-tk
ftp://ftp.uwa.edu.au/pub/nn/nn-tk/
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/nn-tk.15.5/nn-tk.15.5.tar.gz
Description: A Tk interface to nn (net newsreader). It allows
the use of exmh to post news, as well as to
send and read MIME and PGP email messages as well as to turn URLs into
buttons for passing to Netscape or other browsers. Supports Tk 4.x
You may need to update to the latest version of exmh to get the
support for all of nn-tk's features. Be sure to keep checking
back at the ftp site for new releases.
Updated: 08/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Toivo Pedaste)
What: NR
Where: http://www.cs.umn.edu/%7Eherlocke/nr/nr.html
Description: Tcl/Tk based graphical newsreader. It
provides support for multiple fonts and colors,
MIME display of articles, true threading,
multiple groups at one time, multiple newsgroup
profiles, news filtering, grouplens, and
more.
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Jon Herlocker)
What: skim
Where: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/News/readers/skim-0.8.4.tar.gz
Description: A Tk offline newsreader designed to work over SLIP/PPP
lines. Depends on Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0.
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Rene Pijlman)
What: TclNews
Where: http://www.bringardner.com/tony/
ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tclnews1.0b3.tar.gz ???
Description: Usenet newsgroup reader.
Updated: 10/1998
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Tony Bringardner)
What: TKAPPS
Where: http://infoweb.magi.com/%7Ejvgulik/ (???)
Description: Contains apps based on vanilla tcl 7.5/tk4.1 (or newer) including
a full featured mail and news reader (vmail3), vacation mail autoreply
interface (vvac), editor with HTML support and spell checking (vedit),
file manager (fm), program launcher (vprog),
directory based database interface (vquery), mailbox monitor (vbiff),
directory query interface, directory NUAD update interface (vdir).
Tested under SunOS, AIX 3 and 4, HPUX and Linux. May run on
Windows 95/NT as well. Also requires ispell version 3.x, vacation,
mmencode, and uuencode/uudecode.
Updated: 03/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (John van Gulik)
What: tknews (Bringardner)
Where: http://www.bringardner.com/tony/tknews.tar.gz
Description: Tk 4.x based USENET news reader.
Updated: 12/1996
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Tony Bringardner)
What: tknews (Moore)
Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tknews.1.2b/tknews.1.2b.tar.gz
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/tknews/beta.94.12.19.tar.gz >
ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/tknews/tknews-2.0.6b.tar.gz >
Description: Tk-based news reader. In December of 1995, tknews was ported
to Tk 4.0. The author has indicated that development is frozen.
Updated: 02/1997
Contact: mailto:[email protected] (Michael D. Moore)
Updated: July 2002 All of the above links are dead, except the one for nntp by Neil D. McKay.
js
When I try the ftp sites, from IE browser (MS Windows) the sites are not reachable. js
I stand corrected, hm, yes, lots fail now :( -jcw
LV I am finding neosoft.com unreachable right now and the other URLs appear to no longer be available. Apparently there are not many/any active tcl projects making use of nntp.
Marty Backe - An announcement on comp.lang.tcl.announce (09 Sep 2002) states that Neosoft is no longer supporting the archives. They have been moved to: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl
See [L2 ] for the announcement.