How do I download MP3 files from newsgroups, joining all the parts and decoding them?
Forget Netscape for this. There are various programs you can use. Fort Agent is a good dedicated newsreader. Even Microsoft Outlook Express will do a reasonable job of joining and decoding posts. There are also programs designed specifically for retrieving binaries. I’ve been experimenting with a program called “NewsShark” recently. It’s free – you can download it through ZDNet (www.hotfiles.com). It’s a bit buggy (sometimes crashes when you exit it, for example), and rather clunky – it takes a *long* time to start up and shut down once you’ve loaded a bunch of headers into it. But it does join binaries fine, and it has at least one advantage over Agent (or at least, the version of Agent that I have) – if it’s downloading a large binary and the newsserver kicks it off or locks up on it, it will automatically restart the download, keeping the portion of the binary that it has already downloaded… this can be quite a time saver when you’re trying to retrieve large files. *** You have to
