On Monday 18 March 2002 07:42 am, FLYNN, Steve wrote:
> Rather than using Pan for binary newsgroups, try bnr (Binary News
> Reaper). There is a Win version and a Linux version available. It;s
> really is very very good for binary newsgroups.
>
> http://www.bnr.com (I think!)
http://www.co.jyu.fi/~ap/bnr.html works better ;) THANKS, I
always appreciate links, I googled 'Binary News Reaper') to new
software options, specially those that run on Windoze and Linux. I
believe cross platform development is a good thing for Linux, for
everybody.
I've got some questions tho. I visited the site and looked for
info that's important to me. BNR is free beer, but is it free
speech?, ie, is the source included, or is it binaries in a .gz
wrapper? I d/l'd the BRN2.gz file but it won't open (I'll try again
some other time, it was just released today). If it's closed source
binary only, I don't want the headaches, nor wish 'em on anybody else.
GPL ? or is it free (beer) till it's finished, then commercial?
I looked at the features link and it supports many of the same
features as Pan, but I didn't see retry/resume/don't give up til ya
get 'em all even thru reboots or broken connections. ?
--
Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brinkman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 10:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [newbie] best news reader and ftp client
>
> On Sunday 17 March 2002 02:44 pm, Jose Mirles wrote:
> > For a newsreader, most have recommended PAN or KNODE. I still
> > use Forte Agent in a Win4Lin session.
> >
> > For FTP, I love gftp. I think it beats anything in the windows
> > world.
>
> IMNSHO,
>
> News: Knode for discussion groups (also way ahead of whatever
> was in second place in a recent Web survey).
> Pan for unattended auto d/l'g from binary groups with
> resume/retry
> when needed even if you should happen to shutdown your system and
> re-boot. IOW's, pick a bunch of stuff and go to bed ;)
>
> FTP: by far, nt (Webdownloader for X) is the very best, also
> supports resume/retry when needed even if you shutdown your system
> and re-boot, and/or switch mirrors. Very quick and simple to use.
> Also displays connection rate, both graphically and numerically.
> Probly the only d/l butler on the planet that can successfully get
> Mandrake ISO's over a <= 56k connection ;)
>
> all the above are on your Cd's if not already installed
> --
> Tom Brinkman Corpus Christi, Texas
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