comment in the script.
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# a 480 response from the news server; if your news server isn't paranoid
# then the script will never need to look at NNTPAUTH.
-# Copyright 2000 Simon Tatham. All rights reserved.
-# FIXME: put in a licence notice.
+# Copyright 2000,2004 Simon Tatham. All rights reserved.
require 5.002;
use Socket;
in which \cw{nntpid} retrieves \e{all} available articles in the
group and writes them to standard output in \cw{mbox} format.
+The location of the news server is obtained by reading the
+environment variable \cw{NNTPSERVER}, or failing that the file
+\cw{/etc/nntpserver}.
+
\U ARGUMENTS
If you specify one argument, \cw{nntpid} assumes it is a Message-ID.