News::FormReply - derivative of News::FormArticle and News::AutoReply


NAME

News::FormReply - derivative of News::FormArticle and News::AutoReply


SYNOPSIS

  use News::FormReply;

See below for functions available.


DESCRIPTION

This is a ``mixin'' of News::FormArticle and News::AutoReply; it generates form replies by performing substitutions on a text file.


USAGE

  use News::FormReply;

Exports nothing.


Constructor

new ( ORIGINAL, FILENAME [, SOURCE [...]] )
Construct an article as a reply to ORIGINAL, initialised from the specified file, performing variable substitution with values supplied by the SOURCE parameters (see News::FormArticle).

The Subject, To, References and In-Reply-To headers are setup after the template has been read and substituted, but a Subject header set in a template will not be overridden.


AUTHOR

Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>


COPYRIGHT

Copyright 1997 Andrew Gierth <andrew@erlenstar.demon.co.uk>

This code may be used and/or distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

 News::FormReply - derivative of News::FormArticle and News::AutoReply