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- More and more people are posting binary files to usenet these days.
- Because of limitations in the type data that usenet can accommodate,
- binaries must be encoded into text, and because binary files are
- commonly very large relative to text files usenet was designed to
- handle, they frequently must be broken up into pieces.
- aub, which stands for "assemble usenet binaries", automates the
- reassembly process for you. aub determines whether or not any new
- binaries have appeared in selected newsgroups since the last time it was
- run, and if so, retrieves, organizes and decodes them, depositing them
- in a configurable location. This process requires no human intervention
- once aub has been configured. aub also keeps track of binaries which it
- has seen some, but not all, of the pieces of. It remembers how to find
- these old pieces, so that when new, previously missing pieces arrive at
- your site, it will build the entire binary the next time it is run. It
- also remembers which binaries it has already seen all of the pieces of
- already, so that it does not waste time rebuilding the same binaries
- over and over again.
- run: "aub -M | more" for the long form documentation, or
- "aub -m | more" for the short form.
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