Aunc.3171 net.news.b utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!smb Wed Mar 17 13:31:42 1982 retrieving articles by article-id Here's a handy-dandy shell file to read news items by article-id: SPOOL=/usr/spool/netnews t=/tmp/fn$$ trap "rm -f $t; exit" 0 1 2 3 for i in $* do echo "/^$i /s+^$i .* \([^ ]*\)[ ].*+$SPOOL/\1+p" >>$t done x=`sed -n -f $t /usr/lib/netnews/history` if [ -z "$x" ] then exit fi ${PAGER=more} $x ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.