Usenet binary "grabber"

[Keith Richie]

On 5/17/07, Paul Trevethan <plist at internode.on.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 May 2007 15:32:54 -0500
> Charlie Brune <Ubuntu at BruneWorld.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > I use a program in Windows called "NewsBin Pro" to download files
> > from Usenet news groups, and automatically combine and store
> > multi-part binary postings.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there an equivalent Linux program that I can run using Ubuntu?  I
> > see that there are many "news reader" programs available, but none of
> > them appear to have the capability to be pointed at a news group and
> > just grab everything and decode the multi-part stuff like Newsbin Pro
> > does.
> >
> >
>
> There is 'Klibido'. It is a KDE based program, but I have run it under
> Gnome just fine. It's a LONG time since I used usenet under windows but
> from what I have read I think you will find it does pretty much what
> NewsBin does.
>
> Paul.
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Pan is nice for a linux native app. Supports NZBs and large groups
(1,000,000+ headers). Newsbin Pro (even newest beta builds) works fine
in Wine. If you install winrar and quickpar under wine, the auto par
and rar extract will also work.

Pan doesn't support some features like built in par checking and rar
decoding, nor auto nzb loading. But it is quite nice in it's own
right. I use it instead of Newsbin Pro because I like it better.

Ninan is another solution. Ninan is only an nzb downloader though, so
no group browsing. It too will autoload nzbs and perform par2 checking
and rar extracting.