"Gene Mat" <geneSPAMAWAYmat@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
news:Xns93B1AAF3974CgeneSPAMAWAYmatyahoo@64.70.54.95...
  >I am trying to get a list of News Groups using Perl, however I get the
  > following error, when I try either list(), newsgroups(), or the active 
()
  > functions.
  >
  > Can't call method "active" on an undefined value at ./getnntp.pl line 
11.
  >
  > #!/opt/local/bin/perl
  > use Net::NNTP;
  > $nntp = Net::NNTP->new("news.microsoft.com",Debug,1);
  > $DATE=$nntp->date;
  > $GROUP=$nntp->group;
  > 
($narticles,$first,$last,$GROUP)=$nntp->group("microsoft.public.access");
  > $XOVER=$nntp->xover(19303);
  > $LIST=$nnpt->list;
  > $nntp->quit;
  >
  > The other functions group,date and xover work fine.
  >
  > Thanks,
  > GeneMat




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