[MacPerl] News postings and suchlike

[aq@snow.btinternet.com]

I'm attempting to write a script that will read in data from a file, output some of that data (depending on the date) to a message, and then post that message to a newsgroup.
>From what I can see of Perl, it should be possible.
However, having briefly looked at ordinary Perl scripts, they seem to use a lot of unix-based things, such as getting the hostname using $hostname=`/etc/hostname` and suchlike, which doesn't work on a Mac. :-)

So, two things:
Firstly, is this possible in MacPerl? (I would be surprised if not)
Secondly, can someone give me some pointers as to how to do this sort of thing? A pointer to a previously existing MacPerl auto-news-posting script, or basic suggestions, are what I'm looking for here, not someone else to do it for me, since Perl seems rather useful so I'd like to learn it :)

Aquarius (aquarius@cryogen.com)
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