Nomad News
Encyclopedia
Nomad News is an Usenet
news client
used on the Windows
operating system for downloading and uploading binary content. Nomad News was developed by DMP Software. Early versions had been a commercial product. It is however available for free since version 1.43. Even though further development has stopped since the last release in 2002, it is still fully functional under recent versions of Windows up to Windows 7.
Nomad News supports mass saving and decoding of multi-part attachments encoded in uuencode
, yEnc
and base64
. JPEG
and GIF
attachments can be viewed with an internal viewer. Article threads are displayed in a tree-like display. Articles can be filtered by defining tagging rules, which combine wildcard expressions applied to the article's size, subject, author, date and filename. Even though the emphasis of Nomad News lies on downloading attachments, it allows also textual viewing of articles and posting of articles and replies including binary attachments as single or multi-part posts.
Usenet
Usenet is a worldwide distributed Internet discussion system. It developed from the general purpose UUCP architecture of the same name.Duke University graduate students Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis conceived the idea in 1979 and it was established in 1980...
news client
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...
used on the Windows
Microsoft Windows
Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...
operating system for downloading and uploading binary content. Nomad News was developed by DMP Software. Early versions had been a commercial product. It is however available for free since version 1.43. Even though further development has stopped since the last release in 2002, it is still fully functional under recent versions of Windows up to Windows 7.
Nomad News 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...
. JPEG
JPEG
In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....
and GIF
GIF
The Graphics Interchange Format is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability....
attachments can be viewed with an internal viewer. Article threads are displayed in a tree-like display. Articles can be filtered by defining tagging rules, which combine wildcard expressions applied to the article's size, subject, author, date and filename. Even though the emphasis of Nomad News lies on downloading attachments, it allows also textual viewing of articles and posting of articles and replies including binary attachments as single or multi-part posts.
External links
- Official site: Nomad News