On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 06:41:56PM +0100, Christian Marillat wrote: > telnet news.server 119 | tee newsgroups > list > quit Not quite -- really you'd have to do MODE READER AUTHINFO USER foo AUTHINFO PASS bar LIST NEWSGROUPS QUIT Then, filter out all the chatter from the previous commands from the output, and sort it to generate a useful output. This program does that for you.