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[Martin Demet]

Quban - a Qt usenet binary news grabber

Version 0.7.5 - 2nd August 2015

What it is:

Quban is a Qt4 program to download articles from the usenet news
service. It supports multiple servers, multiple download threads per server, automatic joining and decoding of articles.

What's included:

• Automatic unpack/repair for par2, rar, zip and 7z files.
• Built in ssl support
• .nzb support
• Advanced filtering of newsgroup articles
• Grouping of related articles
• Compressed header file download
• Multiple servers fully supported
• Configurable server download limits
• File viewer for image and text files
• Drag and drop for nzb files
• Wizard
• Job console for monitoring and cancelling running jobs
• Getting group lists and subscribing to newsgroups
• Application Scheduler and Traffic Management
• Downloading headers, sorting, filtering by subject, state and "completeness"
• downloading and decoding of binary posts (including yEnc).
• Queue management: it's possible to move items to the top or bottom of the download queue to change the order of download, pause the queue, pause and cancel the
  items in the queue.
• Server priorities and balancing
• Requeueing: if an article fails on a server, it is automatically tried on the other servers.
• Group categories and aliases
• Can generate a diagnostics report to assist problem detection

How does it do it:

• Quban uses Qt4 libraries for the interface, Berkeley DB for
  storing the newsgroups' headers, and a set of internal decoders for decoding the posts.

Dependencies:

• Qt 4.6 or greater
• Berkeley Db 4.x or 5.x
  (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/berkeleydb/overview/index.html)
  with C++ support. If you compile it from source, remember to pass the
  "--enable-cxx" option to configure.
• zlib version 1 (from version 0.6.0)

How to compile:

• Full details are contained in the INSTALL file (bundled with the source code).

Getting started:

• Type "quban" to start the program. To get it working:
• Configure the directories (defaults are provided)
• Add your servers (Server->New Server)
• Get the group list (Server->Download list of available groups)
• When the list of groups is displayed, subscribe to some groups (right click on group and select Subscribe to newsgroup...)
• NewsGroup->Update subscribed newsgroups

Future enhancements:

• More performance improvements

Credits

• Alessandro "Bauno" Bonometti for the work he put into developing
  Klibido 0.2.5, from which Quban was forked.
• KNode and Pan developers for their icons
• Sleepycat (and Oracle) for Berkeley Db
• The trolls for the great IDE they've made.
• David Pye (.nzb parsing, yy/uu decoder)

Licence:

Quban is released under version 3 of the GNU General Public License.

Martin Demet, <martydem_at_users.sourceforge.net></martydem_at_users.sourceforge.net>