Newstools

This is a small collection of programs that gateway some source of information into a newsgroup.

lj2news reads articles from Livejournal via RSS, formats them as plain text and posts them to a newsgroup.
bzr2news reads a Bazaar archives and posts commit messages to a newsgroup.
tla2news reads a GNU Arch archive and posts commit messages to a newsgroup.

Requirements

newstools runs on Linux. It requires Lynx, Curl, Expat and Libgcrypt. tla2news requires Arch to be installed and bzr2news requires Bazaar to be installed. It should not be too hard to port to other UNIX systems.

Downloads

newstools-0.8.tar.gz. See the README and the included man pages for documentation.

newstools_0.8_i386.deb. Suitable for Debian etch.

newstools is licensed under the GPL (see below).

Revision history.

Development Version

You can get the latest development versions from my Bazaar archive. The configure script is not included in compiled form so you must run the 'prepare' script.

$ bzr clone http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/bzr/newstools.dev newstools
$ ./prepare
[lots of output]
$ ./configure -C
[lots of output]
$ make
[lots of output]

Copyright

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA

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