On Mon, May 09, 2022 at 07:41:43AM +0200, gy...@ergoarte.ch wrote: > > On Sun, May 08, 2022 at 06:57:51PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > What I want now, however, is to see the contents of usenet messages > > that have already been downloaded -- years ago. In other words, I'd > > like to use the facilities that are already baked into every decent > > usenet reader to process a message that's already on my hard drive. > > (for example, one I've downloaded way back in 2004). But I don't want > > the everything else that makes that part of a huge, full-function > > usenet eader. > > > > But all the readers I've investigated seem willing to handle only > > messages they download themselves or have stored within their own > > on-disk data structures. There seems to be no mechanism for taking a > > usenet message obtained from elsewhere. > > > > What you want is a (local) usenet server. Usenet is like e-mail with a > clear division of labour between server and client. > I can't advise about which server to use, it's been a long time I used > one.
I finally found what I wanted. It turns out that it is the ancient uudecode command, found in the sharutils package. duckduckgo foud it for me, in the webpage https://kb.iu.edu/d/acup -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
