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RFP: libnews-newsrc-perl -- Manage newsrc files



Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist

I have a personal package of this built, but I don't feel up to
maintaining it.  If someone else wants to take it on, feel free to
contact me for my version.

DESCRIPTION
News::Newsrc manages newsrc files, of the style

    alt.foo: 1-21,28,31-34
    alt.bar! 3,5,9-2900,2902

Methods are provided for
- reading and writing newsrc files
- adding and removing newsgroups
- changing the order of newsgroups
- subscribing and unsubscribing from newsgroups
- testing whether groups exist and are subscribed
- marking and unmarking articles
- testing whether articles are marked
- returning lists of newsgroups
- returning lists of articles

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1996-1998 by Steven McDougall. This module is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself.

-itai



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