On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 10:17:07PM +0100, Andrew Pritchard wrote: > > Hi, > > > > In your oppinion what's the best program for downloading a lot of > > binaries from usenet servers? > > > > At the moment I'm using pan, which is a very nice one, but ideally I > > would like to have something that can combine posts from several servers > > automatically for multipart messages etc. > > > > Some sort of sheduling or periodic download of new files would be a > > plus. Also some sort of handling for daily per server download limits > > would be nice... > > > > Any suggestions are most appreciated! Many thanks for your help in > > advance! regards, > > > > Balazs > > I've found UBH to be very useful for this very purpose - it's console > based so you can run it from a cron job. Not sure about the 'reading posts > from multiple servers' part though. >
I use nget which I find quicker than ubh (written in C++ instead of Perl). I don't use it that way but it can retrieve from serveral servers. Philippe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
