From Newsgroup: alt.usenet.offline-reader

Hello. I am looking at a program called 'nget', which I run in Windows. It uses the shell command line interface, and its purpose is to download news messages from NNTP servers. I just started using it, and it is not all that difficult to configure. I managed to configure it to download messages from a server according to my specified criteria of the last 10 days of postings. I do
not believe it is still being maintained, but it works nicely, and is well suited to a purpose of mine.

The downloaded messages are saving in individual files for each message, which is what I want, instead of mbox format. What I am seeing is that there is a separate text file (filename.txt) containing a message's headers and another file for the message body, which is being saved in base64 format even though the messages have only plain-text data. These files are getting named with the
message subjects, and that is fine with me too.

I would prefer to have the message body and headers kept together, if possible,
in a separate text file. Also, I have not figured out whether there is a way to use nget to browse through these messages. If not, I need a suggestion for doing so.

Finally, I would like to know if there is a way to speed up the download by skipping the decoding a temp file process. Not sure if that is doable, but I would like to know. Any ideas would be welcome. Thanks.


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