fuzzylizard Posted November 5, 2002 Report Share Posted November 5, 2002 So... what is the best news reader out there for linux in particular, I am looking for a good, stable news reader that can do two things in particular - yEnc decoding and post combining. I need the news reader to be able to decode yenc encoded images and news threads as well as be able to combine images/binaries that have been split over several posts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 So far the only thing I know that does both yenc encoding, post combining and news reading is pan. If you only need a binary news extractor, use getbinnews instead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 I just tried getbinnews... Just want to say that whoever wrote it is a skillled programmer who is totally lost on how to design a functional GUI. What a mess to work with! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonMage Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 I just tried getbinnews... Just want to say that whoever wrote it is a skillled programmer who is totally lost on how to design a functional GUI. What a mess to work with! I know, but unfortunately, it's the only binary extractor that I know of that doesn't use mucho hard disk space (which pan does, I mean come on.. 36 megs just for keeping up what articles are read or not?). What I want is a port of XNews to linux.. now that is a really good all in one newsreader and binary extractor. There is another reader/extractor I know of, which is named BNR from http://bnr.newzbin.com but I haven't tried it yet since it requires qt2 libraries.. I am afraid what will happen if qt2 libraries are mixed with qt3 libraries in mandrake 9.0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 Off topic: that same quote from cannonfodder applies to Xcd roast if you ask me. I thought news readers were just like inboxes inside mail clients... wadda I know? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted November 6, 2002 Report Share Posted November 6, 2002 I've used news-grabber on windows. It's probably one of the nicest apps despite its age. The creator was working on a version called zeonews but I haven't checked it out yet.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzylizard Posted November 7, 2002 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2002 Thanks guys. Your answers help a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest makra Posted November 11, 2002 Report Share Posted November 11, 2002 hi... maybe, it is a bit old, but rn and mutt are very good programs for that case, they will work, I think.... Pritty good to bind in the VI for answers. makra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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