NewsHunter3 Help
NEW! NewsHunter3 Maintenance. This article describes ways in which Newshunter3's performance can be degraded and how to get things tuned up.
NewsHunter3 is easy to use. This page will help you get up and running quickly.
Quick Start
Step 1: Adding a News Server and Downloading the List of Newsgroups
- click the New button on the Server List window
- fill in the fields and click the OK button
- click the Connect button
! your initial connection may cause a brief pause - please be patient
- click the Groups button
+ NewsHunter3 will download the list of news groups from your server
Step 2: Subscribing to News Groups
- select one of the servers displayed in the Server List
- click the Read button
+ a Newsreader window is opened
- click the Newsgroups button
+ the Subscription Drawer is opened
- type a search string into the search field
- click the Search button
+ NewsHunter3 displays a list of matching newsgroups
- to subscribe to a newsgroup, double click on its name
- click on the Show My Subscriptions
+ NewsHunter3 clears the list and displays only your subscriptions
Step 3: Downloading the Overview
- If needed, click the Connect button to connect to the news server
- If needed, click on the Newsgroups button to open the Subscription Drawer
- click on a newsgroup
+ NewsHunter3 selects the newsgroup
+ NewsHunter3 displays information about the newsgroup in the Server Information area
- click the More button
* you may also want to click the "Catch Up" button, wait a few hours for new articles to arrive on the server, and then click the More button. Consider this if it is the first time you have subscribed to the newsgroup in NewsHunter3 and if the newsgroup is a very active one. You can use the "Catch Up" button any time you want to clean up the spool folder, expire old articles, and improve performance.
+ NewsHunter3 downloads the Overview
+ NewsHunter3 begins displaying the Overview
- click on an article
+ NewsHunter3 will download the article
+ If the article is unavailable, message will be displayed instead
Step 4: Reading Articles
- click on the More button to get more articles from the server if desired
- click on an article
+ NewsHunter3 downloads the article
+ an "R" is illuminated in the Read column
+ the article's entry is no longer boldface
+ if possible, the article is decoded and displayed
* you can disable automatic decoding from the Articles menu
Step 5: Using the Search String Field
- If needed, click the More button to get more articles from the server
+ NewsHunter3 downloads the Overview
+ NewsHunter3 begins displaying the Overview
- begin typing a search string into the Search String field
+ NewsHunter3 begins updating the article list immediately
+ the color of the article list is changed to indicate that a search has been applied
+ articles that match your search string are displayed
- click the "X" to the right of the search field to clear it
* you can also simply delete the search string
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Downloading Articles
Downloading a few articles, a whole bunch of articles, or an entire newsgroup is easy to do with NewsHunter3. Unlike reading a newsgroup where you read each article and decode any attachments one by one, downloading a newsgroup lets you automatically download articles. All articles are downloaded to a spool folder.
Step 1: Selecting a Download Style
On each newsreader, you will see a Download Style displayed. Click on it to change the download style. You can also use the Download Style menu to select a style.
Download Group for Offline Reading
For example, if you wanted to download the whole newsgroup for offline reading, you would select "Download Group for Offline Reading." This will download all the articles but will not mark them read.
Download Queued Articles
If you have queued some articles and want to download them, you would click until you see the "Download Queued Articles."
Download All Articles
If you wanted to download all the articles in a group you would select "Download All Articles". NewsHunter3 will then download all the articles in the group and mark them as read.
Step 2 - Narrow the Number of Articles to be Downloaded
Search String Can Be Applied - In each instance, you can also use the search string field to further refine which articles will be downloaded. For example, if you only want to download queued articles with "C82", you would use the search string to narrow the queue. In fact, the Search String field will always be applied to whatever NewsHunter3 downloads. This is because NewsHunter3 only looks at what is displayed in the article list. If it is not in the article list, it will not get downloaded. So, if you have the "Download All Articles" style selected, if you have a search string applied, NewsHunter3 will download all articles that match the search string.
Step 3 - Click the Go Button
Once you have finished deciding which articles to download, make sure you are connected, and click on the "Go" button. NewsHunter3 will begin downloading articles to the spool folder. If you have automatic decoding enabled (see the Decode Attachments screen shot above), NewsHunter3 will decode the file if possible.
Step 4 (Optional) - Close the Newsreader Window
Once you have started downloading articles, you can go ahead and close the newsreader window. You will still be able to monitor what is happening from the Server List window. You can re-open the newsreader at any time. Decoded files will continue to be displayed in the Picture Viewer if appropriate.
Step 5 - yEnc files and multipart yEnc Files
All yEnc files on usenet must have "yEnc" in the subject line. If NewsHunter encounters a yEnc file it will be decoded. If a multipart yEnc file is encountered, NewsHunter will keep trying to decode the file. If NewsHunter3 gets all the parts it will decode and assemble the yEnc file for you. Please remember that many people will yEnc a file and then use another program to segment it. NewsHunter3 will not process a segmented file.
Step 6 - Processing Segmented Files
Segmented files end with number like ".001", ".002", etc. NewsHunter3 will download and decode segmented files but will not process them any further. To finish up, you can use a program like Split&Concat to stitch to segments back together.
Screen Shots
Server List window - this is where you add news servers, download newsgroup lists, and access newsreader windows.
Newsreader window - this is where you read newsgroups, download groups for offline reading, queue articles for downloading, and search for articles.
The Catch Up Button - use the Catch Up button to recover disk space, and improve performance.
Search String Field - use the search string field to perform rapid real time searches. As you type your search string, NewsHunter3 updates the article list. You can tell when a search is being applied because the color of the article list changes to red.
Decode Attachments - NewsHunter3 lets you decode files one by one, using the Articles menu or you can turn on automatic decoding. A picture viewer opens to display the decoded picture.
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The Spool Folder - This is where NewsHunter3 saves the articles it downloads.
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Download Styles - use download styles to change how NewsHunter3 downloads articles.
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Use the Search String - You can use the Search String field to further refine the articles that are downloaded. The screen shots below illustrate this technique.
The Search String Field
Download the Entire Queue
Download Some of the Queue
