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Re: Bug#180762: ITP: nglister -- Program to download active and newsgroups files from news servers



John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:

> 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.

Much better :)

nget -a

negt is multi servers. And you can search for a group :

nget -T -A -r "debian"

Christian



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