Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ibmchs!d75!pedz From: pedz@pedz.austin.ibm.com (Perry Smith) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp Subject: usenet maps and nntp Message-ID: <2159@d75.UUCP> Date: 25 Apr 89 22:18:57 GMT Sender: notroot@d75.UUCP Distribution: news Organization: IBM AWD, Austin, TX Lines: 8 I was wondering if the nntp protocol is documented somewhere. I want to make a program which will ask nntp if there are more map files and automatically get them and put them in my maps directory. There are programs like this that work with local news but I want to do it with nntp. Perhaps its already been done. Any pointers? Thanks pedz