ubh - The Usenet Binary Harvester

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Introduction

    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 or Active Perl on Win32 platforms. Requires Net::NNTP and News::Newsrc (which itself requires Set::IntSpan).

Recent News

    Date Description
    8/10/2000

    Release of version 1.1. Proceed to download page.

    This is a maintenance release which primarily improves the usability and robustness of ubh. Be sure to review the CHANGES file for details on all the new features that were added for this new version.

    Upgrading from v1.0 to v1.1 is easy - just replace the executable. Your existing .ubhrc and .newsrc files are entirely forward compatible with v1.1.

    This version of ubh features the work of special guest developer Mark Sullivan (ubh@markbs.com). Thanks, Mark!

    Unfortunately, disk-based article assembly did not make it into this version. I know many of you are anxiously awaiting this capability. Hopefully it will be ready in time for the next version. The v1.1 was long overdue; I didn't want to hold it up any longer.

    The Unix .tar.gz has been getting anywhere from 50-100 downloads per week. The Windows .zip gets 5-15 downloads a week. Thanks for downloading and trying ubh. Extra special thanks to everyone who has linked to the ubh page.


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