Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 13:59:48 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <leblanc+freebsd@acadia.ne.mediaone.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Newsreader question - binaries support? Message-ID: <20010924135948.C35124@acadia.ne.mediaone.net>
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Hey all. I recently started fetching some old Betty Boop cartoons off alt.binaries.multimedia.cartoons. If you are familiar with how these things are posted, you can probably guess what I am looking for. The cartoons are usually archived into several files using the rar archiver. Each file is then broken up into smaller pieces and posted a little at a time. I am using Mutt with the nntp patch, and on a Windows machine, Free Agent. FreeAgent has some smarts about fetching multipart files, but won't do the sorting that makes it so much easier to get the multiple files required to get the end product (often a 200+MB mpeg file). I am told that the commercial version of Agent can also watch for messages that fit a pattern, so you can not only fetch the messages needed for boop.r00, but any of the other 12 or so pieces needed for "Crazy Town.mpg". So, is there a newsreader that anyone knows of that has these features in the ports? I've seen several newsreaders available, but I'm not inclined to learn half a dozen different readers to get the one with the features I want. Thanks in advanced. Lou -- Louis LeBlanc leblanc@acadia.ne.mediaone.net Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://acadia.ne.mediaone.net ԿԬ All laws are simulations of reality. -- John C. Lilly To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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