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Bob's Home Page
Bob's Home Page
This page is an anchor for the link to the
Arizona Skate Champs Artistic Roller Skating Team home page
which I maintain.
It is also the download page for Zub, a news
download program I wrote. This program is distributed as freeware.
It has the usual freeware disclaimers however I do attempt to fix
any bugs anyone finds. People who have tried it like it as it cuts
through alot of the hassle involved in downloading MP3, MPG, ZIP,
and other files from newsgroups.
Skating and programming are not
the whole story, I got my first elk The winter of 1999 and wrote up the adventure to go with it.
Also, my brother's home
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Loretta and Bob
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Cathy
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Joe
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Try Zub - Newsgroup Binary Loader
No, it won't clean your clothes or dishes, but it does a nice
job downloading multi-part files from news groups. It is not a news
reader, it is a specialized program for downloading files
uuencoded, yEnc, and mime encoded in news articles. The program has been run on
Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows 2000. It also runs winder Wine under Linux. It has been tested with
both dialup and LAN internet connections.
The program speaks to the news server in
NNTP protocol. If AOL support
this, it will work. If AOL is using something proprietary, then it
will not work.
Zub in a nutshell
When you want to download multi-part files from newsgroups, such
as .mp3 files, .wav, files, .avi files, etc, you have 2 tasks.
First you have to determine if all the parts are available on the
news server and then you have to select all the parts for download
and tell the news reader to download and decode all of them. This
is assuming your news reader supports this function. There is more
information on similar techniques in some of the mp3 FAQ's anchored
off
www.mpeg.org.
The zub program automates this process by scanning news headers
and finding the files for which all parts are available. It
displays this list of files and allows you to trim it. Finally it
downloads the news articles in the right order and uudecodes them
into files in the specified target directory. Since you may want to
start the download and go to bed, it has the ability to disconnect
your dialup connection and even shut down the computer.
Zub has been run on Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT SP4, Windows 2000,
Windows XP, and using Wine on Linux. The zip file unloads into a
single folder and all files related to zub remain in that folder.
The documentation is in HTML format and
included in the zip file which you can
download (last updated 12/12/2005).
You can also download Zub as a self extracting
zip file.
If you download the program and decide it fits your needs,
write me and I will let you know when
new versions are released. If it almost meets your needs, email me and
I will see what I can do.
07/17/2004, Zub was added to the
Freeware World Team Freeware listings. This site has a lot of freeware which is searhable.
Issue History for Zub:
Bob's WebCalendar Program
Bob's Web Calendar Program is freeware designed to generate static web pages that look like
monthly calendars. The program can upload the generated files to a web site via ftp.
You can put text or images or other web content in each date. You can also put
content above and below each calendar. It is designed to be simple to use
and provide the basic functionality needed by clubs and other organizations.
More information and Download
Sample Output
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| The company I work for sold off a bunch of surplus Sun Sparc
20's to their employees. As one of the early buyers, I had the
honor of figuring out how to make this thing work on my home
network. I have collected my notes into a set of web pages which
are designed to help out a person who has bought such a machine.
Some of the information is oriented toward the specific lot of
machines which were sold, but the information and links should be
useful to anyone who has purchased such a machine. Click this
sections heading or the Sun Logo to examine these pages. |
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Linux Notes
Linux For The Masses Article
Making DOS (Windows) bootable CDroms
Making A Windows Printer that prints to PDF format
MVS HFS Sample Assember Code
Michael and Susan's Cash Flow Site
This page maintained by Bob S.
Last Maintained: Sunday, 21-Jun-2009 20:41:28 CDT
