Usenet Explorer
Encyclopedia
Usenet Explorer is a news client
for the Microsoft Windows
operating system
(also fully compatible with the Linux
Wine software ). It is designed to handle binary and text Usenet
posts, and is capable of handling newsgroups as large as hundred million headers. A Usenet
indexing service with 750 day retention and boolean
wildmat
as search pattern language is integrated into the program.
Releases following v2.0 include automatic unpacking feature - par2
repair / unrar
/ joining split files without user intervention; when using integrated search or nzb file as a download source the download is presented as a single combined entry (so-called custom collection) and all the way to the ready to view or listen media files then becomes seamless and completely automatic. This simple routine makes the program valuable to novice Usenet
users.
Usenet Explorer supports all existing standards for compressing headers and includes native x64 version.
The program is shareware
, posting and par2
repair (QuickPar
replacement) features are free.
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 Microsoft 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
Operating system
An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
(also fully compatible with the Linux
Linux
Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...
Wine software ). It is designed to handle binary and text Usenet
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...
posts, and is capable of handling newsgroups as large as hundred million headers. A Usenet
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...
indexing service with 750 day retention and boolean
Boolean logic
Boolean algebra is a logical calculus of truth values, developed by George Boole in the 1840s. It resembles the algebra of real numbers, but with the numeric operations of multiplication xy, addition x + y, and negation −x replaced by the respective logical operations of...
wildmat
Wildmat
wildmat is a pattern matching library developed by Rich Salz. Based on the wildcard syntax already used in the Bourne shell, wildmat provides a uniform mechanism for matching patterns across applications with simpler syntax than that typically offered by regular expressions...
as search pattern language is integrated into the program.
Releases following v2.0 include automatic unpacking feature - par2
PAR2
PAR2 may refer to:* Parchive , an error correction system for computer files* Protease Activated Receptor 2, a G-protein coupled receptor protein...
repair / unrar
Unrar
Unrar is the name of two different command-line applications for extracting RAR archives.-RARLAB UnRAR:This version of UnRAR is distributed by RARLAB, the makers of the commercial WinRAR archivers...
/ joining split files without user intervention; when using integrated search or nzb file as a download source the download is presented as a single combined entry (so-called custom collection) and all the way to the ready to view or listen media files then becomes seamless and completely automatic. This simple routine makes the program valuable to novice Usenet
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...
users.
Usenet Explorer supports all existing standards for compressing headers and includes native x64 version.
The program is shareware
Shareware
The term shareware is a proprietary software that is provided to users without payment on a trial basis and is often limited by any combination of functionality, availability, or convenience. Shareware is often offered as a download from an Internet website or as a compact disc included with a...
, posting and par2
PAR2
PAR2 may refer to:* Parchive , an error correction system for computer files* Protease Activated Receptor 2, a G-protein coupled receptor protein...
repair (QuickPar
QuickPar
QuickPar is a computer program that creates parchives used as verification and recovery information for a file or group of files, and uses the recovery information, if available, to attempt to reconstruct the originals from the damaged files and the PAR volumes.Designed for the Microsoft Windows...
replacement) features are free.