My ISP lists that newsgroup but when I try to use it no contents are available. Have you downloaded an yenc decoder yet? I downloaded a windows one called yEnc32. I haven't found a newsgroup that had any yenc files in it, at least using Pan newsreader. I kinda recall from years ago I would download all the messages associated with a picture file into a folder and then point my yenc decoder to the contents of that folder.
If the contents of all the associated messages are not too big, can you download them and then post them in a file-sharing website somewhere that I can try to work with? On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 6:57 PM Rickbrown <p...@intermountainac.net> wrote: > > The group name is alt.binaries.pictures.britishrailways so one might > expect a .jpg or other image format (a picture of a train). A scan of > the decoded data reveals no type clues like a .jpg SOM code (xffd8) or > text descriptions. The source of the data is disclosed in the .msg file > header section (giganews.com alt.binaries.pictures.britishrailways:2911 > (which I assume is a message number)), but I do not know how to access > that message from the server. Do You? > > Thanks -Rick > > > > On 03/10/21 18:30, Sarah Taylor wrote: > > Depends on the post of course. Does the name of the group suggest the > > content? Or the name of the post itself or the text associated? The > > point of yenc, IIRC, is to allow a binary file to be sent by a > > text-only service. So you maybe have a picture, or a mp3 file. > > > > On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 10:22 PM RickBrown <rickbr...@intermountainac.net> wrote: > >> Hiya all: > >> > >> I fancy I can decode the yEnc. The question is; once decoded, what do I > >> have? > >> > >> Thanks -Rick > >> > >> > >> On 03/09/21 18:08, Sarah Taylor wrote: > >>> There seem to be several choices for a yenc decoder in various Linux > >>> distros. Have you searched for a yenc decoder? It's been a long time > >>> since I used one, but as I recall the process wasn't difficult. > >>> > >>> > >>> On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:01 PM Rickbrown <p...@intermountainac.net> wrote: > >>>> Greetings: > >>>> > >>>> When I select a header file indicating yEnc encoding to download I get a larger "attachment" file and a collection of .msg files. What is in the attachment file is a mystery, but it is some sort of amalgamation of the information in the .msg files. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> The .msg files contain a header section and a yEnc encoded binary data section. I assume this to be image data for a single image. I can run a rough decode over the data by subtracting out the 0x2a that was added to the data characters as part of yEnc process and ignoring escapes. Then scanning the decoded data I can find no indication of what the data is or what the format is. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Do you know? Do you know where documentation of this product exists? How to use these products? I live in the Linux world. > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> Thanks -RickBrown in Reno, Nv > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>> Pan-users mailing list > >>>> Pan-users@nongnu.org > >>>> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> Pan-users mailing list > >>> Pan-users@nongnu.org > >>> https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users >
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