News2x, a simple tool to fetch news

Author: Johannes Zarl

About

News2x uses the nntp-protocol to get news from a specified server, saving it to disk in html-format.

Any URLs within the article's body are replaced by hyperlinks.
The articles themselves are stored in a directory called like the newsgroup they are from, named according to their date followed by their subject. The Table of Contents of all fetched articles is stored in a file called toc.html.

Starting the program

To run the program open a command line and change to the bin directory. You can fetch the news using the following command:
News2x news://server[:port]/group [days]
Where days specifies, how many days from now shall be queried (defaults to 7)

Examples:

News2x.exe news://news.uni-linz.ac.at/unilinz.announce
News2x.exe nntp://140.78.3.63:119/unilinz.news 31
If successful, News2x has now placed the fetched news into a newly created directory (e.g. unilinz.announce, unilinz.news), naming the html-files after their date- and subject-lines and a file called toc.html containing an index for the news-articles.

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