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Subject:	Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
Newsgroups:	lugnet.admin.general
Date:	Tue, 21 Mar 2000 19:48:37 GMT
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[snipped everything about the pseudo-streaming stuff] Cool! I didn't reply to this sooner, because copying the example client code, pasting it to a file, and running it through perl pretty much exhausted my Perl knowledge. I must play with this some more. Thanks much! Steve

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		Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
(...) yah, it's very cool - I modified it quite a bit here to have messages pop up to my screen, and to be able to tell it which message to start at, either by number or relative to the current one... I plan to add an option to have it start by (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

		Re: Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
(...) One thing worth noting, just as a general side comment about powerful string- processing languages like Perl and Lisp... When someone gives out a program which connects to some server, it's only safe as you trust the code/server combination. (...) (25 years ago, 21-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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		Pseudo-streaming live news (was: Re: Monitor Page)
(...) I was surprised how easy it was to devise a little pseudo-news-streamer -- both on the server end and on the client end. All a client has to do is poll a special URL periodically and check the global article count. If the count has changed, (...) (25 years ago, 17-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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