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Binary Newsreader (BNR)
Version 1.25
(c) 1996,1997 Ralf Christen
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What this software does
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The Binary Newsreader (BNR) is designed for easy downloading and decoding
single- and multipart binary files which are UUE- or BASE-64 (Mime format)
encoded from Internet newsgroups.
Exactly! It's made for all these alt.binaries... newsgroups.
- True 32-bit application, designed for OS/2 Warp V3 and V4
- Uses OS/2 features like multithreading, drag/drop, object oriented execution
- User-friendly configuration notebook
- BNR is multithreaded!
- You can stop and restart any time during the download. You can even discon-
nect from the network and continue working after reconnecting without re-
starting the reader or reloading the newsgroup.
- Ability to connect multi-part-files. You do not have to attach downloaded
UUE-files prior to the decoding process (the way you have to do in NR/2).
- Processes UUE- and BASE64 (Mime format) coded files.
- Filter feature (eg. get articles containing the words JPG or GIF)
- SOCKS gateway
- Mailto and Web Browser gateway
- ...and much more...
Getting started
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- You need an UUE-Decoder and a BASE64/Mime-Decoder installed. I suggest to use
the combinded UUE/BASE64/Mime-Decoder UUDEVIEW, written by Frank Pilhofer.
You can get it from 'ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/os2/unix/uudvdos2.zip' or from
'http://www.dataline.ch/~rch/uudvdos2.zip' (which might not be the most
recent version).
- Copy the BNR files into a new directory and start the software calling
BNR.EXE
- Select 'Create desktop folder' from the 'Configure' Pulldown menu. This
creates the necessary desktop objects for you.
- From this new BNR folder you can access the BNR documentation which is
written in the popular HTML format.
Read the following sections to get familiar with this software:
> 4.0 Getting started
> 5.0 Normal work
These two sections contain a step-by-step documentation on how to start and
how to work with the Binary Newsreader.
Contacts
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Binary Newsreader Homepage : http://www.bmtmicro.com/catalog/bnr
Technical Support Page : http://www.dataline.ch/~rch
E-Mail : ralf.christen@ibm.net
New functions in V1.25
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- BNR uses a separate TCP/IP connection for every newsserver request (get sta-
tus, get article subjects, send NNTP command, post, get list of newsgroups,
update list of newsgroups). BNR connects and disconnects automatically;
therefore, the 'Connect' and 'Disconnect' option have been removed from the
'File' pulldown menu. The '/C' commandline option becomes obsolete. This
also solves the problem that newsservers often disconnect clients after a
period of time.
- Article headers are received using a separate thread (No busy cursor
anymore). You can cancel this thread using the ESC key.
- The position and size of the configuration notebook is saved.
- Two new options have been added on a 2nd 'Filter' page of the configuration
notebook: The first option allows to limit the number of article headers to
be received. The second new option allows to specify the minimum number of
lines an article must have. Articles headers with a line count less than the
value specified are not being displayed. Be aware that you can suppress
the last (too small) part of a multi-part file if you enable this feature.
Both options are also available on the 'Override filters' window when
overriding filters at runtime.
- There is a new button when overriding the filters at runtime to clear
all filters
- Fix: The subscribtion date was not set when using the Cut/Paste function of
the newsgroup manager editor.
- You can post with your real Mail-ID but without your name
- You can use the Web-Browser of your choice
- A new notebook page 'Logging' offers a set of loggings options when
executing BNR scripts. There are 7 more script commands available (END,
GOTO, ONERROR, LABEL, MESSAGE, TRACE and FILTER) to add user defined error
processing to scripts.
- Warp V4 (Merlin) users have the new 'Merlin-style' notebooks
- You can move entries to the top of the receiver job queue
- The additional script command EXECUTE provides a handy way to execute OS/2
commands while processing scripts
- Use the new %N variable in your decoder command to pass the name of the
current newsgroup to the decoder. With this, you can decode the articles
of different newsgroups to different subdirectories.
- You can add generic E-Mail IDs to the blocklist. They must have the format
*@myhost.net. This would exclude all posts submitted by an E-Mail address
at myhost.net.
New functions in earlier version
--------------------------------
There is a complete list of improvements from V1.00 to the current version
at the end of the BNR documentation in BNR.HTM.
Happy downloading...
Ralf Christen