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WHAT IS BRAG?
=============
Brag collects and assembles multipart binary attachements from
newsgroups. This is a robust command-line tool, well suited to run
as a cron job.
FEATURES
========
* Collects and downloads multipart binary attachements
* Supported encodings: uuencode, MIME base64 and yenc
* Filters messages using accept/reject patterns
* Optionally saves message subjects
* Supports NNTP authentication
* Supports non-default NNTP ports
* Can combine parts from different newsgroups or even different servers
* Bulletproof: Restarts from the last successful operation,
handles network errors and disk-full situations gracefully
* Very fast: can utilize multiple parallel connections to server
WHERE TO GET IT
===============
Brag is available from
http://brag.sourceforge.net/ or
http://www.akos.uklinux.net/brag
The project is maintained at SourceForge:
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=3998
TIPS AND TRICKS
===============
Speed it up!
------------
If you have a fast network, you might want to tune the number of connections
to the news server, using the -t option. The default value is 2. If you have
a DSL line or better, we recommend to set it to 4 or more.
Running brag as a cron job
--------------------------
Here is a sample crontab for brag. It runs brag once a day, plus
cleans up unfinished parts older than one week:
30 1 * * * brag -q -s news.myisp.com -g my.favorit.group
30 2 * * * find ~/.brag -name '[0-9]*' -type d -mtime +7 | xargs rm -rf
Reconnecting after network errors
---------------------------------
Brag terminates with exit code 2 in case of network problems. Here is a
sample script which attempts to reconnect twice after a network error:
#/bin/sh
for i in 1 2 3; do
brag -s news.myisp.com -g my.favorit.group
[ $? != 2 ] && break
sleep 60
done
SUGGESTIONS AND BUG REPORTS
===========================
Send them to the author Akos Polster: akos@pipacs.com
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
================
Neil D. McKay <mckay@eecs.umich.edu>:
Wrote the original NNTP extension used in Brag
James T. Perkins <jamester@commonhouse.net>,
Robert Harrah <suprnerd@intelos.net>:
Support for news servers not maintaining an internal message counter
Julio Snchez Fernndez <jsanchez@users.sourceforge.net>:
Performance improvements and support for yenc encoded messages
King Rhoton <king@atomz.com>:
Huge performance improvements utilizing multiple server connections
Jari Lehtonen <jari@utu.fi>:
Max OS X 10.3 fixes
joules@gorfajn.com:
Limit number of messages to download
Simon Kelley <simon@thekelleys.org.uk>:
Debian fixes
Dr. Craig Hollabaugh <craig@hollabaugh.com>,
Gantert, John P. <jgantert@northropgrumman.com>,
Trevor Phillips <phillips@central.murdoch.edu.au>,
Rick <rick@somers.net>,
Mike Manchester <mchester@pobox.com>,
Jason Hobbs <jason-hobbs@home.com>,
Michael Glauche <mg@plum.de>,
Kevin Stanchfield <kevin@shannon.jpl.nasa.gov>,
Holger Pfaff <Holger.Pfaff@class.de>,
Antti-Veikko Rosti <avir2@cam.ac.uk>,
Jim <kaka_6969@yahoo.com>,
Anders Hedberg <Anders.Hedberg@kau.se>,
Claas Langbehn <claas@rootdir.de>:
Bug reports and suggestions
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