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News::Newsrc - manage newsrc files

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

PREREQUISITES
Perl5.6.0
Set::IntSpan 1.07

HOW TO BUILD AND INSTALL
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

TODO
Nothing planned.  
Send suggestions, bugs, etc. to swmcd@world.std.com

COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1996-2001 by Steven McDougall. This module is free software;
you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl
itself.