Bug 22447

Summary: organize binary news messages (binaries)
Product: [Unmaintained] knode Reporter: Unknown <null>
Component: generalAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description mathijs 2001-03-15 12:54:35 UTC 
(*** This bug was imported into bugs.kde.org ***)

Package:           knode
Version:           KDE 2.1.0 
Severity:          wishlist
Installed from:    Debian Package 4:2.1.0-0.potato2 (2.2)
Compiler:          gcc version 2.95.2 20000220 (Debian GNU/Linux)
OS:                Linux 2.4.1 i586
OS/Compiler notes: 

Some newsreader utilities have a very nice feature: they group messages containing parts of the same binary file. Such binary files can be saved directly to the hard disk (the utility downloads all messages (mime) and decodes them).

BTW I like your newreader very much go on with the good work!


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Comment 1 ieure 2002-10-08 23:04:17 UTC 
I suspect that this bug is a dupe of #20363, though I'm not sure, since it's not in English. 
  
I want this feature as well. Basically, this is what happens:  
  
A big file split into several parts, usually 10mb chunks. This is typically accomplished with RAR.  
The resulting chunks are then encoded into ASCII with UUencode or (more recently) yEnc. Those  
encoded chunks are then further split into sub-chunks of around 3000 to 10000 lines each. Those  
sub-chunks are then posted to one of the alt.binaries groups on Usenet.  
  
The newsreader must, then, download the individual parts, merge the ASCII sub-chunks back  
together, decode them into the original binary chunk, and save that to disk. The user may then  
extract the original file(s). The subject of the messages determines the order, e.g. "A nice  
file.r03 (01/15)" indicating that this is part one of fifteen sub-chunks of "A nice file.r03".  
  
Pan, a Gnome newsreader, has this functionality. It would be excellent if KNode did as well. I  
imagine that most of the code could be stolen from Pan, but it shouldn't be too hard to implement  
from the ground up.
Comment 2 David Findlay 2003-02-10 08:20:42 UTC 
It would also be useful if it could put together the rar chunks too with ark.
Comment 3 Stephan Kulow 2004-05-17 21:17:50 UTC 
Replaced mathijs@scientist.com with null@kde.org due to bounces by reporter
Comment 4 Nick Brown 2004-07-14 21:44:28 UTC 
Is this not just a dupe of "#20082 mime/partial" ?
Comment 5 ieure 2004-07-14 21:49:30 UTC 
No, usenet binaries are typically UUencoded or YEncoded, split into multiple parts (~5 - 7.5k lines/post) and posted as text.
Comment 6 Rolf Eike Beer 2007-11-27 18:39:26 UTC 
*** Bug 64682 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Andrew Crouthamel 2018-09-04 18:33:33 UTC 
Hello! Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but this project has been unmaintained for many years so I am closing this bug.