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"Karl E. Peterson" <karl@xxxxxxxx> wrote in
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DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For binary d/l'g, I WILL say that arguably the best current program
is NewsLeecher.

That looks kinda interesting. What kind of eval do you get? (Takes
me awhile to really be sure I like something this fundamental to my,
uh, existance.)

The eval used to be no limit other than a 30 day eval. Now, IIRC, the
eval is still a full functioning program for 30 days, but limited to
128KBytes/sec. d/l speed.

NL is ONLY meant for binaries, any kind of text reading is hard because
the display does not do any message threading.

The virtual groups feature is great. I'm not sure what binary content you
would be interested in, but what it does it present all of the posts in
whatever groups you added to the vGroup, in one single window instead of
having to open each group in individual windows. (Although it's not meant
for text, for an example only) you probably have many VB groups you
visit. I see you're using OE retrieve all headers for each group then
read each VB group separately. With a Virtual Group, you would make all
of the VB groups you read part of the VGroup. Then d/l headers for the
VGroup, it will d/l all headers for all member groups, and show them in
one window all at once.

Multiple d/l threads are supported, automatically, as well. I fill my
pipe w/3-4 threads which gets 3'ish mbps. You can use multiple threads
with XNews, but it's a whole procedure you need to go thru and create
multiple queues, and add messages to a specific queue. NL does all of
this.

The d/l'g is part based as well, not file based. If you have 3 threads
d/l'g, they will work on the queue, top to bottom. All 3 threads will
work on one file until its done, then the next. Other programs will only
run 1 thread on a specific post, so it's d/l'g 3 files of 1 thread each.

If you do a fair amount of binaries on Usenet, I would at least recommend
to try it out.

DanS
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