Pakket: brag (1.4.1-2.3)

Downloads and assembles multipart Usenet binaries

Brag collects and assembles multipart binary attachments from newsgroups. This is a robust command-line tool, well suited to run as a cron job.

 * Collects and downloads multipart binary attachments
 * Supported encodings: uuencode, MIME base64 and yenc
 * Filters messages using accept/reject patterns
 * Optionally saves message subjects
 * Supports NNTP authentication
 * Supports non-default NNTP ports
 * Can combine parts from different newsgroups or even different servers
 * Bulletproof: Restarts from the last successful operation.

Tags: Implemented in: Tcl, Tool Command Language, User Interface: Command Line, Networking: network::client, protocol::nntp, Role: Program, Scope: Utility, Purpose: use::downloading, works-with::archive

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