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Title:          aub
Version:        2.0.5
Entered-date:    12APR95
Description: aub, which stands for "assemble usenet binaries", automates this
reassembly process for you.  aub is intended for use in newsgroups to which
binaries are posted exclusively.  When run, it accesses news articles via
either a disk-based news spool directory, or via an NNTP news server,
determines whether or not any new binaries have appeared in selected
newsgroups since the last time it was run, and if so, retrieves, organizes
and decodes them, depositing them in a configurable location.  This process
requires no human intervention once aub has been configured.  aub also keeps
track of binaries which it has seen some, but not all, of the pieces of.  It
remembers how to find these old pieces, so that when new, previously missing
pieces arrive at your site, it will build the entire binary the next time it
is run.  It also remembers which binaries it has already seen all of the
pieces of already, so that it does not waste time rebuilding the same binaries
over and over again.
    aub was created as a time saver; too many people at too many sites
were spending way too much time manually unpacking binary files.  Its ability
to identify and assemble binary images depends on people posting images with
subject lines that observe (loosely) established conventions.  aub's
recognition capabilities have been significantly improved since the earliest
release.
Keywords:       aub, Assemble Usenet Binaries
Author:         [e-mail], [e-mail], (Mark Stantz)
Primary-site:   sunsite.unc.edu, http://www.sjs.com
        aub_perl5.tar.gz
Platforms:      Linux, but should work on any Unix box.
        Requires Perl version 5
Copying-policy: GPL
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