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

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