How To Guide - yEnc Parts.txt
How To Guide - yEnc Parts
-How to download and decode the yEnc parts (version3.3)-
The new encoding format called yEnc is faster for posters to
upload and for you to download than standard UU encoding.
A 20% per part savings for 56K modem downloaders, and a
24% per part savings for high speed downloaders has been reported.
The easiest way to download and decode the yEnc parts is to
use a newsreader that supports yEnc:
I use: Xnews v5.0 (free) xnews.3dnews.net
(please read "Tips for Xnews set-up" at the bottom)
Posterboy says: News Rover supports yEnc.
Tha*Lunat!k says: NewsPro supports yEnc.
Posterboy: Linux newsreader for GNOME: pan.rebelbase.com/roadmap.html
Mac users report that Thoth and Rosetta work with yEnc parts.
Thoth newsreader & Rosetta decoder: http://www.thothsw.com
(being as yEnc is a new thing, I would get the NEWEST versions)
Obelix reports: Agent will be ready for Yenc with version 2.0 which
will be released in April or May.
With Xnews (and I assume all the others mentioned above)
each yEnc part will come out just like any other part on your end,
so you won't have to do a thing, just join as you normally do.
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But, for those guys that don't want to change newsreaders.
Here are some Agent and Outlook tips:
With yEnc parts, you will have to use the "save message as"
option insted of the "save attachments" option, that is
because the yEnc format will come out as text in these newsreaders.
You will need to get this free yEnc decoder program,
Go here: http://www.yenc.org/ydec.htm
twards the bottom of the page, find "Downloads" and click on:
"yDec v1 for Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP"
Download and unzip it to a folder of it's own. Creating a folder
for it on your C drive is best. (DOS has a problem with long
path names, so don't put it in a folder,in another folder, in another
folder...)
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Agent users:
Download the batch of yEnc parts just as you would any regular parts,
Once downloaded, with all parts highlighted,
use the "save message as" command,
type in anything you want in the "filenames" box,
(you don't even have to type in an extension)
and save it to a folder.
It takes a few seconds to save all parts and when it does,
it creates one big file.
Now open the folder where you have unzipped the "yDec.exe",
and drag the one big file that Agent created
and drop it on the "yDec.exe"
yDec will decode that one big file into individual decoded parts with
the correct movie name and part number.
The individual parts will show up in the same folder where
your big file is. you can delete the big file, or save it as a backup.
Now your ready to join the parts as usual.
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Outlook Express users:
(thanks to Dodge and LookUp for showing me batch downloads in Outlook)
highlight all the parts in one batch,
then click "Message" / "Combine and Decode"
OE will download all the files, when done it will show a
single message window.
This is where OE will slow your computer down (looking for hyperlinks)
all you need to do is go to "File" / "Save as",
choose a folder to put it in,
then and hit "Save", then close the window.
It is possible to do this without waiting for Outlook to finish
searching for hyperlinks, just click each command and
wait for it to come up.
(don't worry about renaming the file or changing the extension,
just save it, yDec will do all the work for you)
OE creates one big file with the EML extension,
now open the folder where you have unzipped the "yDec.exe",
drag the one big file that OE just created
and drop it on the "yDec.exe"
yDec will decode that one big file into individual decoded parts with
the correct movie name and part number.
The individual parts will show up in the same folder where
your big file is. you can delete the big file, or save it as a backup.
Now your ready to join the parts as usual.
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OK, Agent, Outlook and Xnews are the only newsreaders that I have,
so I just hope that other newsreaders will be similar
and you all can figure it out.
This yDec program does have automatic error checking, which is cool.
And some one said that yDec was slow, but it's not, it took
all of 13 seconds to decode the large Agent file into 50 decoded parts
and I have an old slow system.
and,incase you want to play with it, Dodge found a different
yEnc decoder that joins as it decodes: http://www.yenc.org/ydec1.zip
This seems like a good way to go if your the type of person to
collect all the parts of a vid before you join. This will save a step
and join and decode at the same time.
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Tips for Xnews set-up:
go to SPECIAL and then SETUP XNEWS
choose IDENTITIES tab and put in your nick name
(the PUBLIC EMAIL need to have a @ in it or you will get
an error when you try to post a message.
Hit OK.
Now go back to SPECIAL / SETUP XNEWS / IDENTITIES tab
and clear the box where it says ID TOKEN, hit OK.
You do NOT want that ID Token there.
Everytime you change something on the IDENTITIES tab,
and hit OK, that damn ID TOKEN creates it's self again,
so double check and make sure that box is empty.
To sort by subject:
on the DISPLAY tab
under SORTING AND THREADING choose SORT ON : SUBJECT
To save attachments automatically (including yEnc parts):
on the FILES tab under SAVE ATTACHMENTS IN DIRECTORY
browse to the folder you want you movie parts in.
And put a check where it says AUTOMATICALLY SAVE ALL ATTACHMENTS
hit OK
To batch download:
open a group,
find a batch of files you want,
click on the first file you want to download to highlight it,
hold the shift key and click the last file in that batch,
the whole batch will now be highlighted.
Now hit the space bar,
that adds those files to the Queue list,
(you'll see a number come up next to each file you Queue,
in the Q column), if you make a mistake, you can highlight
the files and hit the space bar to un-Queue so they don't download.
If you want another batch, do the same thing and get them
on the Queue list.
When your ready to download, hit the F4 key at the top
of your keyboard, that starts the download process,
everything that is on the Queue list will download one
right after the other.
More tips for Xnews set-up:
http://www.geocities.com/d4vidb/
lurker
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