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From: ssave@caen.engin.umich.edu (Shailendra Anant Save)
Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.software.nntp,news.admin
Subject: Reading news without 'rn' or 'vn'.
Keywords: rn vn
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Date: 1 Oct 90 17:52:59 GMT
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  I want to read the news without using the 'rn' or 'vn'
commands from the command line.  I want to use the 'at' 
command to read the news at say 3:00 am and cat everything 
from the group into a file, and then update the .newsrc file 
so that the next day the same articles are not read again.  
I am not a very good script writer/ system programmer and 
would appreciate any help in doing this. I would presumably
have to interact with the NNTP server. How do I do that?

                                        --Shailendra
                                 ssave@caen.engin.umich.edu