Re: [Pan-users] Downloaded articles format

[John Wendel]

On 5/12/21 11:23 AM, Zan Lynx wrote:
> On 5/11/21 5:09 PM, Beata Kasprzyk wrote:
> >   I would like to download the Polish Usenet articles as a .txt files. I
> > am a quiet new at using Pan, but I have downloaded articles via Pan in
> > the past, and they were saved in .txt format. Unfortunately now they are
> > downloaded in .msg format.
>
> A comment on using Pan for downloading NNTP as files:
>
> Using a GUI application for this is a bit round-about. Why not download
> the messages directly to files using a script language?
>
> Both Python and Perl have NNTP modules. You could use them to go to the
> NNTP server and mirror any group to a local directory. This is like
> using curl or wget to fetch web pages, instead of clicking in Chrome and
> then clicking "Save As" on each page.
>
> https://docs.python.org/3/library/nntplib.html
> https://perldoc.perl.org/Net::NNTP       

>

Not sure which OS you're using, so this may not help.  I'm on Linux, and 
use uudeview when I get a few thousand MSG files that need to be 
reassembled.

From the manual page

UUDeview is a smart decoder for attachments that you have received in 
encoded form via electronic mail or from the usenet. It is similar to
the standard uudecode(1) command, yet with more comfort and flexibility. 
 UUDeview supports the uuencoding, xxencoding,  Base64,  yEncoding and 
 BinHex encoding methods, and is able to handle split-files (which have 
been sent in multiple parts) as well as multiple files at once, thus 
greatly simplifying the decoding process. Usually, you will not have to 
manually edit files to prepare them for decoding.

After invoking uudeview, it will scan all given files for encoded data, 
sort them and their parts and then present you  with  the  list  of
files that seem like they can be decoded properly. You can then pick 
files individually for decoding.

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