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Annotation of pkgsrc/news/nget/DESCR, Revision 1.2

1.1       recht       1: nget is a command line nntp file grabber.
                      2: It automatically pieces together multipart postings for easy
                      3: retrieval, even substituting parts from multiple servers and
                      4: newsgroups. Handles disconnects gracefully, resuming after the
                      5: last part succesfully downloaded.
                      6:
                      7: features:
                      8:   * Automatic multi-part post joining
                      9:   * Automatic binary decoding (using uulib)
                     10:   * Caches header data for quick access
                     11:   * Full multi-server support, transparently joining parts
                     12:     from different servers
                     13:   * Full multi-group support, transparently joining parts from
                     14:     multiple newsgroups
                     15:   * Automatic retries on network errors
                     16:   * Resumes after the last part successfully downloaded
                     17:   * Dupe file detection to avoid unneeded downloads
                     18:   * Select what to retrieve based upon a regular expresson (-r),
                     19:     or even a more complex expression (-R) based upon any of the
                     20:     file's subject, author, lines, bytes, # of parts we have,
                     21:     # of parts req, date, age, messageid, and references.
                     22:   * Search for newsgroups based on their names and/or descriptions
                     23:   * Automatic handling of PAR and PAR2 files retrieves only as many
1.2     ! rillig     24:     recovery files as necessary to repair any missing/damaged files.