Good binaries group readers?

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I'm currently using Grabit for my fill of tech e-books and tunes. The
problem is that it's a resource hog, bogs down the computer and takes
forever to sort the busier groups when updating. I like Xananews for
text and single-part files but it doesn't handle multi-parts very
well.

Do you have any suggestions for something better? I'm using win2k pro
and not likely change in the foreseeable future.

- YD.
 
YD said:
I'm currently using Grabit for my fill of tech e-books and tunes. The
problem is that it's a resource hog, bogs down the computer and takes
forever to sort the busier groups when updating. I like Xananews for
text and single-part files but it doesn't handle multi-parts very
well.

Do you have any suggestions for something better? I'm using win2k pro
and not likely change in the foreseeable future.
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Frankly, I personally don't have a suggestion for anything better. Yes,
it is indeed resource hungry when it's updating, even to the point of
using all of the CPU cycles. However, for some reason I'm able to still
do things like surf, read groups in T-Bird and the like. They run a
little slower, but I can live with it.

Try the incremental updates instead of full updates if you're not doing
that. The former takes much less time than the latter.

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I'm currently using Grabit for my fill of tech e-books and tunes. The
problem is that it's a resource hog, bogs down the computer and takes
forever to sort the busier groups when updating. I like Xananews for
text and single-part files but it doesn't handle multi-parts very
well.

Do you have any suggestions for something better? I'm using win2k pro
and not likely change in the foreseeable future.

- YD.
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Don't download the headers but go to http://www.binsearch.info to
generate nzb files. Use Grabit or any other 'nzb-capable' newsreader to
import the nzb file and download the binaries you want.
 
Don't download the headers but go to http://www.binsearch.info to
generate nzb files. Use Grabit or any other 'nzb-capable' newsreader to
import the nzb file and download the binaries you want.
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In the end, that's what I did. Seemed a bit strange at first, but the
nzb format really works and gives the opportunity to look through ng's
I wouldn't normally see.

Thanks to all who replied.

- YD.
 
YD said:
I like Xananews for
text and single-part files but it doesn't handle multi-parts very
well.
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What's your problem with multi-part binaries? It works fine for me
after I learned how to rearrange the parts in order. The only problem
I have with binaries is animated GIFs. If you like I can try to help
you out to make Xananews work for you too.
 
What's your problem with multi-part binaries? It works fine for me
after I learned how to rearrange the parts in order. The only problem
I have with binaries is animated GIFs. If you like I can try to help
you out to make Xananews work for you too.
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No real problem at all. It's just that the manual selection and
arranging of the bits and pieces is a bit of a job. Other readers do
it automatically. Other than that I like it quite well.

- YD.
 
YD said:
No real problem at all. It's just that the manual selection and
arranging of the bits and pieces is a bit of a job. Other readers do
it automatically. Other than that I like it quite well.

- YD.
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You must arrange your messages with the newest on top like I do. If I
want to download multi-part binaries I usually rearrange the message
tree pane to order them with newest on bottom. That way when selecting
the multi-part binary files they all fall into order -- assuming they
were posted in order.
 
You must arrange your messages with the newest on top like I do. If I
want to download multi-part binaries I usually rearrange the message
tree pane to order them with newest on bottom. That way when selecting
the multi-part binary files they all fall into order -- assuming they
were posted in order.
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For years now I've read about having to arrange multi-part this and
manually select that to get binaries onto the hard drive. I can't
remember exactly when I started using MicroPlanet's Gravity, but I have
always wondered why more people didn't. I realize that it was not
freeware, but with it not being developed and supported anymore, except
by those that love it and "build" it, it's free now. I find it extremely
easy to use. I merely double click on an article, and it downloads it
for me to a pre-determined folder... no arranging this or manually
selecting that. I am in no way "pushing" this software, I am just trying
to be helpful. There are way too many features to list here that you
would find helpful, but here is the URL of the site the guys that still
"tinker" around with the software, have.

http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tbates/gravity/

Al

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