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Re: Binary Downloads help

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From: Peter Ceresole
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 00:00
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In article <3566B412.EF4E2D3F@bengio.demon.co.uk>,
philip <philip@bengio.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>I have been trying to download some of the Binary multiparty files in
>certain news groups  but am having no luck
>Is there anyone who can tell me how to do it

What goes wrong?

In some groups (like 'warez') which contain illegal or copyrighted material
poeple have caught on to the fact that by cancelling one part you can
effectively cancel the lot, so sometimes there is a part missing for that
reason.

Otherwise, you extract the parts, join them up in the correct order, using
the utility available in most decoders (certainly in UULite) and decode
them. It ought to work.

>Im using Netscape Communicator 4.05 on my mac

It ought to work. But if it decodes automatically, note that multipart
binaries don't always turn up in the right order.

-- 
Peter
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From: peter@cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole)
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Date: 1998/05/23
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