"Simondo" wrote
> I'm learning how to download binaries using OE6,i can do music fine etc save
> it to my desktop but everything else i'm struggling with,when i've decoded
> it all and say i send it to my desktop all i get is an envelope with what
> i've just decoded inside not say the item what it should convert into.
> Appreciate it's not the best description but don't know any other way yet as
> it's all new.
>
> Many Thanks
You are probably running into Rar parts that have been
encoded using yEnc.
If the files are yEnc encoded, which is very common,
you will not be able to combine and decode them with
Outlook Express. Micrsoft is NOT going to add
yEnc support to OE, and decoding yEnc using external,
3rd party software is cumbersome at best, so I suggest
not even trying. Instead, you'd be better off installing and
learning to use a dedicated news reader that decodes yEnc
internally. (You can still use OE as a text reader/poster
for newsgroups, but no one serious about multi-part
binary recovery uses OE.)
Examples of yEnc-capable newsreaders:
Agent ("Full" Agent @ $29 -- NOT Free Agent -- 30
day free trial):
http://www.forteinc.com/agent/index.htm
or Xnews (free):
http://xnews.newsguy.com/
or Gravity (free):
http://lightning.prohosting.com/~tba...ty/start1.html
Also, for $35, there is Newsbin, which is strictly
for downloading binaries (no posting):
http://www.newsbin.com/ .
Rar (WinRar--similar to WinZip) files are compressed
archives that have been split into Rar Parts.
WinRar shareware (always works, even after trial
period):
http://www.rarlab.com/download.htm
Rar Tutorial:
http://www.slyck.com/ng.php?page=5
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