• What is the interest of this program ?
• How to start to download binary file ?
• How to know if there is all articles of a file ?
• How to select multiples articles ?
• How to only download complete file.

In a news server, there are some particular newsgroups which begin by: "alt.binaries" and "alt.binary". Those newsgroups contain images, movies or music sent in articles.The aim of getbinnews is to download these images, movies, music.

There are four steps to begin to download binary files.

1. Fill up the fields for news server
2. Download the newsgroups
3. Create at least one group list to select in which newsgroup you want to search for binary files
4. Download the articles which contain the binary files

The list of articles is made of two fields, the first one is an icon and the second is the subject of the article.

There is three kind of icons which have all a different signification :

green disk which mean all the articles of the files are there.
broken green disk which mean not all the articles of the files are there.
broken red disk which mean the first article of the files is missing.

to understand what it is look at fig 13.

1. I want to select all the articles of the files
2. I want to select mutiple articles.

To do this check the button do not download if file is incomplete in the settings.
See instructions in the following exemple