Need freeware news reader & file downloader

[DJboutit2]

I am looking for a freeware news reader that can download pics videos mp3s &
files. I use XNEWS now it is any good and will it do what I am looking to do
and if not what should I get to do this.

 

[dkg_ctc]

(e-mail address removed) (DJboutit2) wrote in

I am looking for a freeware news reader that can download pics
videos mp3s & files. I use XNEWS now it is any good and will it
do what I am looking to do and if not what should I get to do
this.

Xnews will do what you want to do, but unlike some downloaders Xnews
won't use multiple connections by default. Rather, you'll have to set
up multiple queues or something similar. See

http://xnews.newsguy.com/sizer/

for one person's explanation of how to best setup Xnews for binaries.

 

[Ro the Muppet]

(e-mail address removed) (DJboutit2) wrote in


Xnews will do what you want to do, but unlike some
downloaders Xnews won't use multiple connections by
default. Rather, you'll have to set up multiple queues or
something similar. See

You really dont want multiple connections usually. Only if you
have access to multiple news servers which have *different*
files on their storage.

Xnews does the job admirably.

 

[dkg_ctc]

You really dont want multiple connections usually. Only if you
have access to multiple news servers which have *different*
files on their storage.

Actually, here, I do need multiple connections. My newsserver,
while having very good retention and completion, caps downloads at
60 K/s. The upside, however, is that a user is allowed up to eight
concurrent connections to the news server at a time, so while the
speed per connection is 60 K/s, one can download at 480 K/s when
using all available connections.

Xnews does the job admirably.

I agree, except for the limitations I mentioned above, and the fact
that Xnews restricts you to four concurrent connections to a server
despite the server allowing up to eight concurrent connections.

 

[Ionizer]

I agree, except for the limitations I mentioned above, and the fact
that Xnews restricts you to four concurrent connections to a server
despite the server allowing up to eight concurrent connections.

This prompts me to pose a hypothetical question someone asked me the other
day that I didn't have an answer to: Is it possible to simultaneously run
two separate "installations" of XNews, which in your case would allow those
eight concurrent connections? And I put the word "installations" in quotes
because XNews does not actually need an install- so the above scenario would
have two newsreaders which would be perhaps unaware of each other's
existence, running simultaneously. ?

Hypothetically Yours,
Ian.

 

[dkg_ctc]

This prompts me to pose a hypothetical question someone asked me
the other day that I didn't have an answer to: Is it possible to
simultaneously run two separate "installations" of XNews, which in
your case would allow those eight concurrent connections?

Yes, it does. Adding /m to the command line will run multiple
instances of the same profile, or you can use /m coupled with the /d
switch to run two instances of Xnews using different profiles. The
Xnews manual uses the following example:

"You can set up xnews for multiple users by specifying a different
start up directory with the command line switch /d:start-up-dir.
(Note: you cannot have any space between the switch and the
directory name.) For example,

c:\bin\xnews.exe /d:c:\user\mary

mary can then have her own .ini files, score file, etc."

And I put the word "installations" in quotes because XNews does
not actually need an install- so the above scenario would have two
newsreaders which would be perhaps unaware of each other's
existence, running simultaneously. ?

Yep, you can do it either two instances of the same profile, or two
instances with two separate profiles.

 

[Ro the Muppet]

I agree, except for the limitations I mentioned above, and
the fact that Xnews restricts you to four concurrent
connections to a server despite the server allowing up to
eight concurrent connections.

Excuse me, if I say that your setup is not typical. Your text
is noted, and logged. Thanks.

 

[vsj]

(e-mail address removed) (DJboutit2) wrote in

I am looking for a freeware news reader that can download
pics videos mp3s & files.
[snip]

Xnews does the job admirably.
Then there's Power-Grab: www.cosmicwolf.com/
Power-Grab 2002 DOWNLOAD. POWER-GRAB-2002-v2_5.ZIP (979k)
VERSION 2.5. Simply create a new folder and extract and run Power-
Grab from there. ...

 

[dkg_ctc]

(e-mail address removed) (DJboutit2) wrote in

I am looking for a freeware news reader that can download
pics videos mp3s & files.
[snip]

Xnews does the job admirably.

Then there's Power-Grab: www.cosmicwolf.com/
Power-Grab 2002 DOWNLOAD. POWER-GRAB-2002-v2_5.ZIP (979k)
VERSION 2.5. Simply create a new folder and extract and run Power-
Grab from there. ...

I've also been using BNR2 lately to do a lot of my binary downloading.
Other than a somewhat screwed up interface, it's very good. It's
filtering is very powerful, though, which is important to me.

 

[John Fitzsimons]

I am looking for a freeware news reader that can download pics videos mp3s &
files. I use XNEWS now it is any good and will it do what I am looking to do
and if not what should I get to do this.

You might like to check out Dialog at :

http://www.40tude.com/dialog/history.htm

Currently a time limited beta but soon to be replaced by a time
unlimited version. Has a spell checker, online and offline use without
any other programs, multi server functionality etc.

Regards, John.

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[point blank]

I am looking for a freeware news reader that can download pics videos mp3s &
files. I use XNEWS now it is any good and will it do what I am looking to do
and if not what should I get to do this.

I always use Grabit for downloading pics etc. It really is an excellent
program - difficult to imagine anything doing significantly better
(well, ok, I guess preview pics would be nice!):

www.shemes.com

You will probably want to keep using xnews or something like gravity for
text groups.