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- H e a d l i n e s
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- View the news headlines - read the stories
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- by David Thomas, © 1996-8
- version 1.22 (24 May 1998)
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- Introduction ______________________________________________________________
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- Headlines lets you view the news headlines by selecting and displaying the
- pertinent details from known news website. The advantage to doing this is
- that it's often a lot quicker and simpler then using a web browser to do the
- same job.
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- Headlines is a command line program, which is intended to be used in a
- TaskWindow under RISC OS.
-
- Source code is provided. It has been compiled and tested under RISC OS (with
- Acorn C/C++ and SocketLib) and under Sun OS and Solaris (with GCC).
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- Usage _____________________________________________________________________
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- Syntax: headlines [article number]
-
- Headlines retrieves the news headlines page of the Press Association website
- - http://www.pa.press.net/news/main.html - and parses and presents the news
- headlines to you as they are received.
-
- Quoted after each headline is a number in square brackets. This is the
- article number to specify if you want to read more about the story. For
- example, at the command line:
-
- *Headlines
- Headlines - News fetcher - by David Thomas, (C) 1997-8
-
- ...
-
- - Posh Spice Victoria Adams and Manchester United soccer star
- David Beckham have announced that they are to wed. [3]
-
- ...
-
- *Headlines 3
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- POSH SPICE AND SOCCER ACE BECKHAM TO WED
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- Posh Spice Victoria Adams and Manchester United soccer star David
- Beckham have announced that they are to wed.
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- The couple announced their engagement to their families but the big
- day may not be for at least a year, sources disclosed.
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- Alan Edwards, Victoria's PR man, said: "They're so happy together,
- they've had bottles of champagne sent up to their suite and are just
- thrilled to be spending some time together. Their parents are
- absolutely delighted at the news."
-
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- Notes _____________________________________________________________________
-
- - Text is not word-wrapped. Perhaps I might even get around to doing this
- one day. :-)
-
- - If the format of the PA pages changes significantly in the future then
- it's pretty much guaranteed that this program will cease to function.
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- Versions __________________________________________________________________
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- 1.22 (24 May 1998)
- - The memcpy() call had its parameters the wrong way around! Bizarrely this
- worked, but only if you gave Headlines a large wimpslot.
- - Headlines should need only a 24K wimpslot.
-
- 1.21 (19 Apr 1998)
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- 1.20 (20 Mar 1998)
- - The Press Association have now revised their web site - this version has
- been updated to work with the revised site.
-
- 1.10 (31 Jan 1998)
- - You can now use Headlines to read the actual stories (after much moaning
- by dr_chasm. :-) This is achieved in an ugly way, but what the hey.
-
- 1.04 (14 Oct 1997)
- - First release.
-
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- Copyright & Contact Addresses _____________________________________________
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- This software is copyrighted work of David Thomas, it is supplied “as is”;
- using it is entirely at your own risk. I make no warranty as to the fitness
- of this software for any purpose. You are free to distribute this program
- toanyone you please, as long as you are not supplying it for personal or
- commercial gain and it is delivered with all of the supplied files unaltered.
-
- If you have any comments, bug reports, suggestions for future versions or
- anything else don’t hesitate to contact me at -
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- Mail: Mr D.P. Thomas
- 20 Rosebery Avenue
- Waterloo
- Liverpool
- L22 2BH
-
- Email: dpt@tristone.co.uk
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- WWW: http://www.tristone.co.uk/davespace/
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