Cg (newsreader)
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cg is a binary grabbing news client
for the command line. It combines available files and shows the user a selection in an editor. It supports mass saving and decoding of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode
, yEnc
and base64
. cg is free software
licensed under the GNU General Public Licence.
News client
A newsreader is an application program that reads articles on Usenet . Newsreaders act as clients which connect to a news server, via the Network News Transfer Protocol , to download articles and post new articles...
for the command line. It combines available files and shows the user a selection in an editor. It supports mass saving and decoding of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode
Uuencode
Uuencoding is a form of binary-to-text encoding that originated in the Unix program uuencode, for encoding binary data for transmission over the uucp mail system.The name "uuencoding" is derived from "Unix-to-Unix encoding"...
, yEnc
YEnc
yEnc is a binary-to-text encoding scheme for transferring binary files in messages on Usenet or via e-mail. It reduces the overhead over previous US-ASCII-based encoding methods by using an 8-bit Extended ASCII encoding method...
and base64
Base64
Base64 is a group of similar encoding schemes that represent binary data in an ASCII string format by translating it into a radix-64 representation...
. cg is free software
Free software
Free software, software libre or libre software is software that can be used, studied, and modified without restriction, and which can be copied and redistributed in modified or unmodified form either without restriction, or with restrictions that only ensure that further recipients can also do...
licensed under the GNU General Public Licence.