ubh - The Usenet Binary Harvester
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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, Active Perl on Win32, Perl on Mac OS X, and MacPerl on MacOS. Requires Net::NNTP and News::Newsrc (which itself requires Set::IntSpan).

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1/7/2000

    CVS tree now online. Click here to browse.

1/7/2000

    Release of version 1.5. Proceed to download page.

    Enables ubh to automatically reconnect even when erroneous error codes are reported by the Net::Cmd Perl module.

    Thanks to Frank Hofmann for working with me to resolve the problem. Thanks to Adam Rice for digging deep into the libnet modules to uncover the true problem, and for proposing a way for ubh to work around it.

    Upgrading from any previous version to v1.5 is easy - just replace the executable. Your existing .ubhrc and .newsrc files are entirely forward compatible with v1.5.


gerard 'at' users.sourceforge.net