Documentation can be found at http://tcllib.sourceforge.net/doc/nntp.html
RFC 977 [L1 ] governs NNTP.
The following software packages attempt to use nntp:
What: knews Where: <URL: http://avonlea.kanga.org/tcl/ > Description: Proof of concept NNTP server written in itcl. Updated: 05/2000 Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected] > What: newsflash Where: <URL: ftp://ftp.neosoft.com/languages/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: <URL: mailto:[email protected] > (Koert Zeilstra) What: Newsspy Where: <URL: ftp://134.93.129.91/pub/newsspy/newsspy-1.0.tgz >
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: <URL: mailto:[email protected] > (hofmann)
What: nntp server
Where: <URL: http://avonlea.kanga.org/tcl/ >
Description: A proof-of-concept NNTP server (written in Itcl).
Updated: 06/2000
Contact: <URL: mailto:[email protected] >
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: <URL: mailto:[email protected] > (John McGowan)
What: nntp
Where: <URL: http://www.neosoft.com/tcl/ftparchive/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: <URL: mailto:[email protected] > (Neil D. McKay)
Category Package, subset Tcllib