Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber
*- On 17 Sep, Joey Hess wrote about "Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber" > Brian Servis wrote: >> "This is a small program that I wrote for Linux (which could >> theoretically compile on pretty much any other UNIX) that >> automates the extraction of binary attachments from UseNet >> newsgroups." > > Why would anyone need this when uudeview already does such an excellent job, > and is free? > bgrab is a news grabbing ncurses front end to uudecode. It connects to a newsgroup and reads all the posts and then uses uudecode and mmencode to extract all the binary files. If I am not mistaken uudeview does not connect to usenet and is only a post processor for files once they are already on your system. As Joe mentioned the author was pretty excited to have it included in Debian. Perhaps he could be talked into changing the license or allowing necessary patches to be included. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber
Brian Servis wrote: > "This is a small program that I wrote for Linux (which could > theoretically compile on pretty much any other UNIX) that > automates the extraction of binary attachments from UseNet > newsgroups." Why would anyone need this when uudeview already does such an excellent job, and is free? -- see shy jo
Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber
*- On 17 Sep, Paul Slootman wrote about "Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber" > On Thu 16 Sep 1999, Joe Drew wrote: >> >> I've received an OK from the author of Rael's Binary Grabber to redistribute > > Perhaps you could shed some light on what `Rael's Binary Grabber' is? > >From http://thelamb.dhs.org/~rael/bgrab/ "This is a small program that I wrote for Linux (which could theoretically compile on pretty much any other UNIX) that automates the extraction of binary attachments from UseNet newsgroups." The COPYING file in the source: COPYING Rael's Binary Grabber may be freely copied, you can redistribute it all you like, but please do not *alter* any existing part of it if you're redistributing. I'd like the distribution to stay consistant. If you use Binary Grabber as part of something bigger, please give credit where credit is due. -- Brian - Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -
Re: ITP: Rael's Binary Grabber
On Thu 16 Sep 1999, Joe Drew wrote: > > I've received an OK from the author of Rael's Binary Grabber to redistribute Perhaps you could shed some light on what `Rael's Binary Grabber' is? Paul Slootman -- home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.wurtel.demon.nl/ work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.murphy.nl/ debian: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ isdn4linux: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.isdn4linux.de/
