NNTP binary file grabber for Linux?

jspaceman · 04-06-2005, 05:58 PM

Can anyone recommend a good usenet binary file grabber for linux? It doesn't have to have a GUI, command line is fine too. I've tried nzbget but it seems to have trouble reading some .nzb files, and I'm not sure if it is still being developed.

Any other recommendations?

khermans · 04-08-2005, 04:54 AM

I contibute to the nzbget project, and I am using it almost everyday! I love it, but it is nothing like NewsLeecher on Windows. Have you tried nzbget 0.2.0? I am using it with the ncurses mode turned on -- see the options in the man page.

Anyways, there is also BNR2, aka Binary News Reaper. I hate it though, but it does have a GUI. You might want that. There is also Pan, but I don't think it is suitable for binaries unless they changed things in recent versions...

Kristian Hermansen

wrat · 04-08-2005, 09:09 AM

pan is ok and works for binaries BUT it eats a lot of memory....if your using kde klibido seems to work fine Ive been using it for about a week but in klibido if the post isnt yy/uu encoded it may fail to download

khermans · 11-28-2005, 12:07 AM

I have since switched to the java-based Ninan. It is great and I use it everyday on Windows and Linux now rather than NewsLeecher and nzbget, respectively. Check it out:

http://ninan.sourceforge.net
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Kristian Hermansen

khermans · 06-28-2007, 09:14 AM

I now use hellanzb and hellahella, since it runs on everything and does auto-par2 and auto-unrar!