ubh - The Usenet Binary Harvester

CHANGES 

Version  Date        Description
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  1.5    01/07/2000  Maintenance release.  Solved '222' reconnect issue.
                     Thanks to Frank Hofmann and Adam Rice.

  1.4    12/28/2000  Disk-based article assembly, plus a round of bug fixes.

                     * Disk-based article assembly (-A).  TEMPDIR keyword to
                       specify where to store the temporary file(s) during
                       assembly.
                       Thanks to special guest programmer Jt "The Squeegy" 
                       Chiodi, squeegy_at_squeegy.org, http://www.squeegy.org/
                     * PERMISSION keyword to control default permission of
                       created subdirectories.
                       Thanks to Jt "The Squeegy" Chiodi squeegy_at_squeegy.org
                     * Made uudecode search for "end" case insensitive.
                       Thanks to Michael Tiedge - 
                       michael.tiedge_at_stud.uni-hannover.de
                     * Use "/o" modifier to only compile regexp's once.
                       Thanks to Adam Rice - wysiwyg_at_glympton.airtime.co.uk
                     * -O option to force overwriting of duplicate files 
                       instead of prepending article number.
                       Thanks to coder_at_mindspring.com
                     * Default single and multi-part inclusion filter greatly
                       expanded to be '(?i)asf|avi|gif|jpg|mov|mpg|mpeg|rm|
                       [cdertsu]\d\d|rar|ace|zip|\d\d\d|nfo|sfv|mp3'.
                       Thanks to Jeff Hedgpeth jhedg_at_swbell.net, and
                       Andi L6hmus andi_at_nex.ee
                     * Fix documentation for -f and -l to say that they
                       update the .newsrc.
                       Thanks to Jeff Hedgpeth jhedg_at_swbell.net
                     * Example ubhrc mentions OPT_c - should be OPT_C
                       instead.
                       Thanks to Ying Zhang ying_at_zippydesign.com
                     * Tested on Mac OS X.
                       Michael J Paluka paluka_at_pacbell.net
                     * -g was not updating .newsrc.
                       Thanks to 3Jane Tessier Ashpool jane3ta_at_yahoo.com
                     * -n was not documented.
                       Thanks to 3Jane Tessier Ashpool jane3ta_at_yahoo.com
                     * MacPerl platform support.
                       Thanks to Mike W. mw487_at_yahoo.com
                     * -g was not obeying -I or -X filters.
                       Thanks to Andreas Wenzel a.wenzel_at_aon.at

  1.3    10/10/2000  Maintenance release.  Just some nice improvements.

                     * Will detect a dropped NNTP connection during group()
                       and body() calls, and will automatically reconnect,
                       re-authenticate (if necessary), re-issue the group() 
                       call, and proceed from where it left off.
                       Thanks to Adam Rice - wysiwyg_at_glympton.airtime.co.uk
                     * Made uudecode search for "begin" case insensitive.
                       Thanks to Michael Tiedge - 
                       michael.tiedge_at_stud.uni-hannover.de
                     * Now ignores trailing whitespace in ubhrc values.
                       Thanks to Hsiao-Yu Chen - chenh_at_cs.purdue.edu

  1.2    08/29/2000  Maintenance release.  Fixed nasty bug which was
                     preventing single-part "(1/1)" articles from being
                     processed.

  1.1    08/10/2000  Maintenance release.  Lots of cleanup and speedups.
                     Some new convenience options.  Minor bug fixes.

                     * Added command line options:
                          -C Changes all non-alphanumeric characters in a 
                             filename to '_'.
                          -L Long filenames - uses the article subject as 
                             the filename.  This makes life easier because 
                             many folks encode their files with terribly 
                             vague filenames.
                          -y chmod 0666 all output files
                          -Z Produce lots and lots of logs (seriously)
                          -z Mark articles that don't pass inclusion/exclusion
                     * Added progress display (prints dots as articles are 
                       processed/downloaded).
                     * Added code to fix filename length problems
                     * Exit code is now set to -1 if there was an error, 
                       otherwise the exit code is the number of files 
                       retrieved.  Useful for wrapper scripts.
                     * Added new .ubhrc keywords: 
                       EXTENSIONS 
                          Sets both multi_ext and single_ext.  Handy.
                       FORCEDIR
                          Forces output to a specific directory instead 
                          of the default data/newsgroup-name.  Handy for 
                          multiple newsgroups which hold similar stuff.
                       NNTPRETRIES
                          Number of times to retry NNTP commands.
                     * Wrapped more nntp calls in retry loops.
                     * Miscellaneous code cleanup.
                     * Comments are included in the source.
                     * Changed article marking
                         Articles now are only marked if they are part of a 
                         successful download, or are not chosen by the 
                         inclusion/exclusion etc.  This makes life easier 
                         because now you don't miss out on files that are 
                         incomplete during a run.  You get them on the next 
                         run.
                    * Added data rate display.  Each body downloaded displays 
                      a data rate (for body downloads only).  Headers are not 
                      measured.  A grand total is displayed at the end of the 
                      run.
                    * Huge improvement in the way headers are retrieved.
                         - Only downloads headers for unread articles.
                         - Requires that your server supports XHDR. 
                           Most do, so don't worry about it.
                    * Can now specify -I and -X simultaneously.
                    * Fixed bug with -i.  Thanks Don H.!
                    * -f and -l now update the .newsrc.  Thanks Joerg S.

Version  Date        Description
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  1.0    03/22/2000  First public release.  Finished MIME. Minor bug fixes.

Version  Date        Description
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  0.5    02/08/2000  Finished initial MIME implementation.  Implemented reject 
                     logging.

Version  Date        Description
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  0.4    01/20/2000  Second beta distribution.  Minor bug fixes and typos.

Version  Date        Description
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  0.3    01/16/2000  First beta distribution.
