ubh - The Usenet Binary Harvester

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Introduction

    ubh - the Usenet Binary Harvester - is a GPL'ed Perl console application which automatically discovers, downloads, and decodes single-part and multi-part Usenet binaries. Automatically assembles multi-part binaries. Provides searching via Perl regular expression syntax. Also provides a pre-selection capability whereby the user can interactively choose which binaries to download. Uses a standard .newsrc file to control which groups to process, and uses the .newsrc to keep track of articles already processed. Handles uuencoded binaries and MIME attachments. Runs under Unix-based Perl or Active Perl on Win32 platforms. Requires Net::NNTP and News::Newsrc (which itself requires Set::IntSpan).

Recent News

    Date Description
    10/10/2000

    Release of version 1.3. Proceed to download page.

    This is a maintenance release which fixes several particularly nagging problems:

    • Will detect a dropped NNTP connection during group() and body() calls, and will automatically reconnect, re-authenticate (if necessary), re-issue the group() call, and proceed from where it left off. Thanks to Adam Rice!
    • Eliminated the ugly goto's in the reconnect code.
    • Made uudecode search for "begin" case insensitive. Thanks to Michael Tiedge!
    • Now ignores trailing whitespace in ubhrc values. Thanks to Hsiao-Yu Chen!

    Upgrading from any previous version to v1.3 is easy - just replace the executable. Your existing .ubhrc and .newsrc files are entirely forward compatible with v1.2.


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