Re: a news reader able to extract correctly the stuff of a.b.* groups?
On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 05:42:58PM +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote:
> Hello!
> i am experiencing some problems with my favourite newsreader (trn) to
> extract archives from alt.binary groups.....
>
> in fact if the order isn't exactly matched or if by some means another
> archive begiinning crosses the actual decompression process and the
> whole thing vanishes in the void....
>
> is there any newsreader out there that is less error-prone and more
> indulgent concerning the extraction of archives? beeing notably be able
> to reorder itself the parts it downloaded?
>
> would be nice if i could select by regexp or everything from a group and
> let it extract without needing to save all to disk and then reorder
> using a mail-client....
slrn generally handles this very well. It does require that the parts be
tagged in sequence but the displayed sorting is intelligent so that's
not a problem.
The version in woody (9.7.1) made some changes that in my estimation
broke binary handling in several ways. I complained to the maintainer
and they have been supposedly fixed in 9.7.2, however that version is
not yet in woody. The stable version thinks that (9/15) comes after
(10/15) so you need to be careful tagging mal-formed subject lines but
otherwise has worked fine for me for a very long time.
As long as all the parts are available (and no network problems cause a
gap) 9.7.1 is fine. If you need to save the parts over several sessions
you can do that and then use uudecode (which does its own sorting).
--
Man makes mistakes. But every act and habit has its consequences.
-- Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)
Rick Pasotto rickp@telocity.com http://www.niof.net
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