Netcomics is a perl script that can retrieve comic strips from the Web
that are continuously being updated each day.  Netcomics utilizes a
modular set of library perl scripts that provide it information on
where to find each specific comic strip.  It is most often run as a
cron job, along with display_comics.

Required to run netcomics are the following CSPAN perl modules:
HTML-Parser, libwww, and Image-Size.  You can retrieve these as rpms
or as sources.  See the manpage for CPAN for help on a way to
automatically download these modules, or goto http://cpan.perl.org/,
or get the rpms from the netcomics homepage (see below).

See INSTALL for instructions on how to setup netcomics.

See the manpage for netcomics for information on how to use it.
doc/netcomics.html is an HTML version of the manpage.

See the doc/Comic_Modules-HOWTO.html file to learn how to add your
own comics modules.  See doc/Modify_Webpage_Creation-HOWTO.html
for how to personalize the webpages that can be created with the
-w & -W options.

This program does not have to be specific to just comic strips.  If
you have an idea on how it could be implemented more generally for
other applications, please let me know.  My unimplemented modules are
available in the source tree under lib/disabled.  So before making
additions, be sure to download the source or the SRPM if you've
installed this from an rpm.

Send email to myself, Ben Hochstedler <hochstrb@cs.rose-hulman.edu>,
or contact me by ICQ: 15469308 if you wish to submit your own netcomics 
lib modules for addition in the next release, or to request a specific 
comic you know the website at which it exists to be added.  Of course, 
bug reports and suggested enhancements are always welcome.

Make sure you include the version of netcomics you are running when
sending me a bug report!

Visit the netcomics homepage: 
http://www.cs.rose-hulman.edu/~hochstrb/netcomics/

Future updates are announced on:
* http://www.freshmeat.net
* http://www.linuxapps.com
* the Linux Software Map (http://www.execpc.com/lsm/) 
* Redhat Announce List <redhat-announce-list@redhat.com>

There is also another script out there that can get comics for you,
written by Mark Hershberger. You can get it at: 
http://www.everybody.org/mah/hacks/

And, there is an emacs lisp module: getcomics.el.  You can get it at:
http://www.lysator.liu.se/~petli/elisp or /ftp.lysator.liu.se:/pub/emacs

    Copyright (C) 1999 Ben Hochstedler

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    any later version.

    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
    GNU General Public License for more details.

    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
    Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
