Xnews and NZB files
The Bronx
Archbell.
With the sidekick-program you will be able to use NZB files within Xnews.
But I can't get it to work, still the maker pretents that it works fine.
I sent an email to him but no answer yet. Maybe it will come one of hese
days...
But maybe somebody in this newsgroup knows the working of this litle tool.
The step that are necessary in Xnews are:
1. Make sure all instances of Xnews are closed.
2. Open XnewsQueue and select your Xnews program folder. (Where Xnews.exe is
located.)
3. Select server for files to use.
4. Select folder/queue for files to be imported to.
5. Click Import NZB.
6. Load Xnews and open your chosen folder.
7. Select Groups->Server Override->Your server.
8. Download/decode as normal.
From point 7 on I feel no difference with normal headering.
A large group still get all of the headers so I see no difference with
normal use of Xnews.
Step 8 is therefore also something mysterious....
Is it something I do wrong?
Btw: the program can be found at: http://xnewsqueue.archbell.com/#home
Greetz
The Bronx
The Bronx
> On 31-Oct-2004, "The Bronx" <j.bronkhorst@NO_SPAM_hccnet.nl> wrote:
>
>> The step that are necessary in Xnews are:
>> 1. Make sure all instances of Xnews are closed.
>> 2. Open XnewsQueue and select your Xnews program folder. (Where
>> Xnews.exe is
>> located.)
>> 3. Select server for files to use.
>> 4. Select folder/queue for files to be imported to.
>> 5. Click Import NZB.
>> 6. Load Xnews and open your chosen folder.
>> 7. Select Groups->Server Override->Your server.
>> 8. Download/decode as normal.
>
> something another app could do simply.
> BNR2 is free and does nzb fairly easily, as does NZB-O-Matic. Just an
> opinion.
I know, but I tried some other newsreaders (Newsbin, Grabit, Newsleecher)
but I'm a little bit stuck on Xnews. I'm very used to it so if there is a
possibility to have Xnews working with NZB I would very much like to use it
(especially with handling postings in the very large groups).
Greetz
The Bronx
Mike Yetto
>> Just an observation but that looks like an awful lot of work to
>> do something another app could do simply.
>> BNR2 is free and does nzb fairly easily, as does NZB-O-Matic.
>> Just an opinion.
>
> I know, but I tried some other newsreaders (Newsbin, Grabit,
> Newsleecher) but I'm a little bit stuck on Xnews. I'm very used
> to it so if there is a possibility to have Xnews working with
> NZB I would very much like to use it (especially with handling
> postings in the very large groups).
>
For my observation, I'm a little skeptical of users who claim to be
stuck on Xnews, but continually use Lookout Distress to make that
claim. If you practice with Xnews you will get better with it.
Mike "unless this is another NZB troll" Yetto
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Howe Park
news:41856a4d$0$251$58c7...@news.kabelfoon.nl:
We are currently testing the automatic queuing of articles into
XNews header & queue folders from Snooze. This would ultimately
provide virtual groups to XNews as we can save the article text in
the XNews mbx format, and serve this up to XNews by being a local
server.
The automatic creation of the files and their reference in folders.ini
has been a pain, and we can understand the need to close XNews while
importing NZBs. Once our queueing has been shaken out, we will attempt
some "NZB explosion" from our Matched Threads window, and by drag'n'drop.
Watch this space ->
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Gompy
> Anyone who has any experience with the program XnewsQueue from William
> Archbell.
> With the sidekick-program you will be able to use NZB files within
> Xnews. But I can't get it to work, still the maker pretents that it
> works fine. I sent an email to him but no answer yet. Maybe it will
> come one of hese days...
It does work very fine, at least it does here ;)
> But maybe somebody in this newsgroup knows the working of this litle
> tool. The step that are necessary in Xnews are:
> 1. Make sure all instances of Xnews are closed.
> 2. Open XnewsQueue and select your Xnews program folder. (Where
> Xnews.exe is located.)
> 3. Select server for files to use.
> 4. Select folder/queue for files to be imported to.
> 5. Click Import NZB.
> 6. Load Xnews and open your chosen folder.
> 7. Select Groups->Server Override->Your server.
> 8. Download/decode as normal.
In fact everything is very simple.
The configuration of XnewsQueue.
The first row: the folder where Xnews is in, in my example; E:\Xnews
The second row: the nickname of your server, in my example; Nieuws
The third row: the name of your QUEUE folder, examlpe; _Queue-1-MP3
Fourth row: the folder where you've put your *.nzb files in, click
on the right side of that row to look them up.
When you've found them, just click on "Import NZB "
The *.nzb files are now imported in to your Queue folder, but from there
you've got to transfer them to a Archiv folder, or you can decode
them directly.
> From point 7 on I feel no difference with normal headering.
> A large group still get all of the headers so I see no difference with
> normal use of Xnews.
> Step 8 is therefore also something mysterious....
> Is it something I do wrong?
There is a simple way to get *.nzb file.
Go to http://www.binaries.nl
Write in the search field for what you are looking for,
for example by alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.jazz
You get;
Royal Blue.mp3
12 pts, 6.05 Mb * reposts * nzb
You can download al the .nzb files from every track you want.
But the MOST simple way to do is to use a little Javascript,
named NP-helper, it's for M-Explorer.
How it's works and how to install you've got to go to;
http://www.binaries4all.nl/nphelper/
and read the install procedure precisely.
As you are Dutch, you won't find any difficulties.
Perhaps you can make a fine translation for non-Dutch people ;-)
Good Luck...
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