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-This is version 1.0 of the newsfetch distribution. This is an utility
-to download news in the mail format. Feedbacks are welcome.
-
-If you find a bug in the newsfetcht distribution, please report it.
-
- Yusuf Motiwala
- yusuf@scientist.com
-
-DESCRIPTION
- % newsfetch news.yourisp.com
- % newsfetch $NNTPSERVER
-
- newsfetch pulls news from an NNTP server and writes the
- articles to a file named same as newsgroup name. The file
- created by newsfetch can be used with any mail reader.
+Newsfetch pulls news from an NNTP server and writes the articles to a file
+or pipes them to the specified command. The file created by newsfetch can be
+used with any mail reader.