http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=691892 and found that posting from the command line is really sexy and fast. Same with archiving and many other things.

You can get knewspost from sourceforge via this http://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=knewspost

Please *disregard* my comment (1) in the previous post.

You should indeed put wildcards in the globbing statement – I must have ended up repairing more files than I needed to!

So:

$ cat filestem.avi.[0-9][0-9][0-9] >filestem.avi

is quite correct.

Sorry!

1. Concerning joining parts on the commandline:

I find if all the parts and par files are in their own directory, there’s no need to put wildcards in the glob expression. The shell (bash in my case) seems to know I’m talking about numeric globbing only. So I just do:

$ cd thatdirectory
$ cat somefile.avi.* >somefile.avi

Never have any problems – the shell ignores the par2-ending files etc.

Be sure to put quotes around the filenames if they contain spaces, and use double quotes if these contain parentheses (Windows people will put all kinds of garbage in filenames!).

2. Concerning parts that are in fact split rar archive parts: there seems to be a typo in the article.

When rar itself makes split archives, the digits get put between the filestem and the “rar” suffix. So it’s quite obvious:

somefile.001.rar
somefile.002.rar
somefile.003.rar
etc

and not as the author says. if it looks like somefile.rar.001 etc then the archive was made with rar and subsequently split with something else.

Combine and extract with:

$ rar x somefile.001.rar

I recommend using x not e because this will preserve any directory structures/paths inside the archive. Files may have been neatly organized into folders, but you’ll lose all that with e.

1. I thought rar 4.41 for linux was shareware. Needs checking, but I have a suspicion there isn’t an obligation to buy.

2. Pan2 still is lacking in some ways, but it’s all there really is as a half-decent native binary GUI newsreader for linux. It has got a lot right, so it’s getting there. It’s fine for relatively light use, or if you can get used to its quirks. It will improve.

3. Forte Agent runs well under the current wine release in linux. XNews also runs well under wine but requires the following dlls from a WinXP install to be copied into the XNews root directory: comctl32.dll, ole32.dll, oleaut32.dll, riched20.dll, riched32.dll. Run winecfg and set those libraries as ‘native’.

Forte Agent should be installed in the ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files directory. XNews should be installed in ~/.wine/drive_c (not sure how important that is).

I’ve heard QuickPar (free) also runs under wine but haven’t tested this. In any event Peter Brian Clements’ par2cmdline utilities for linux work very well:
http://parchive.sourceforge.net There are precompiled binaries in Debian repos and probably elsewhere.

4. LUCY sucks the sweat off dead donkey balls unfortunately.

5. Newsmangler (commandline, Python) is fine for posting binaries.

—

client = yes

[nntp.client]
accept = 127.0.0.1:119
connect = {your nntp server}:563

—

Then, you can point your client to localhost, and stunnel will handle the ssl connection to the actual server.

Includes an interesting-sounding utility called ’similar’, which somehow is supposed to find images that are similar in content (including duplicates).

I haven’t tried stic (looks much more than I need), but it might warrant exploration for anyone seriously into usenet images.

http://stic.sourceforge.net/

2. LUCY is a Perl commandline newsreader and poster.

http://www.geniegate.com/other/lucy/

Again, I haven’t tried this yet (may do) and post this fyi, since I’m happy with newsmangler for posting.

http://www.madcowdisease.org/mcd/newsmangler

Does work quite well.