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From: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu (Dave Schweisguth)
Subject: Re: Reading MOTD but only once.
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Pete Hartman (pwh@bradley.bradley.edu) wrote:
: Why not just find source for System V's "news" program?
:
: That's what we did--allows you to create a "news" directory of
: items that users will only see once.

And, if it must be Perl (the header suggests so), I've written a 'news' in
Perl. It's at neutron.chem.yale.edu in /pub/news.tar.Z.

Cheers,

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| Dave Schweisguth   Yale MB&amp;B &amp; Chemistry   Net: dcs@neutron.chem.yale.edu |
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