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NAME
       brag - Grab multipart binaries from news server

SYNOPSIS
       brag [-s server] [-P port] [-g group] [-l user] [-p pass] [-q] [-u] [-o
       dir] [-n num] [-c] [-C] [-X] [-a pattern [-a pattern] ...] [-r pattern
       [-r pattern] ...] [-A file] [-R file] [-t n] [-b break] [-m max]

       or

       brag -L [-s server] [-P port] [-l user] [-p pass]

DESCRIPTION
       brag downloads and assembles multipart binaries from an NNTP server.
       Attachments encoded with uuencode, Base64 or yenc are supported.

   OPTIONS
       -L     Just print a list of groups available at the server

       -s server
              Set news server to server

       -P port
              Set TCP port to port

       -g group
              Set newsgroup to group

       -l user
              Set user name to user.  Setting this option turns NNTP
              authentication on. The password can be specified using the -p
              command line option, or using a passwod file (see later)

       -p pass
              Set password to pass.

       -q     Be silent: do not display progress information

       -u     Save subjects together with the assembled binaries. Subject
              files have the same name as the binary, with .sub extension
              added

       -o dir Set output directory to dir

       -n num Start with message number num

       -c     Combine parts, even if they are from different newsgroups. Also,
              an article will be downloaded only once, even if it was
              crossposted to more than one newsgroups

       -C     Combine parts, even if they are from different news servers

       -X     Process single-part messages, too

       -a pattern
              Add pattern to the list of accept patterns. See next section on
              accept/reject patterns

       -r pattern
              Add pattern to the list of reject patterns

       -A file
              Read accept patterns from this file

       -R file
              Read reject patterns from this file

       -t n   Use n number of parallel connections to the server. Default: 2.
              Set to 4 or more if you have a high speed network connection

       -b break
              Specify "break factor": the number of milliseconds to wait
              between retrieving lines from the server. Useful to share a low-
              speed connection with other applications

       -m max Specify the maximum number of messages to download

ACCEPT AND REJECT PATTERNS
       The subjects of the messages to be downloaded are matched against the
       list of accept and/or reject patterns if specified on the command line
       or in the accept/reject files (see later). Only articles matching at
       least one of the accept patterns will be accepted. Similarly, articles
       matching one of the reject patterns will be rejected.

       Match operations are performed as in csh(1).  For example, to accept
       all files with extension mp5 , specify

            -a '*.mp5*'

       on the command line. Note the quotes (we do not want the shell to
       process the pattern) and the second "*" (we are matching against
       subject lines, not file names).

FILES
   DOWNLOADED FILES
       Grabbed files are collected in ~/.brag/<server>/<group>/finished (if
       not specified otherwise using the -o command line option). If combining
       parts from multiple servers ("-C" option), the results are collected in
       ~/.brag/all-servers/<group>/finished.

   WORK FILES
       Work files are kept in ~/.brag/<server>/<group>/unfinished or in
       ~/.brag/all-servers/<group>/unfinished if the "-C" option is used.  It
       is recommended to regularly purge these directories by removing old
       files and subdirectories. What "old" means depends on the newsgroup's
       traffic; one week can be a good approximation.

   PASSWORD FILES
       Passwords can be specified on the command line, or for extra security,
       in password files. Each server can have its own password file, named
       ~/.brag/<server>/passwd.  The format of these files is:

            user1:password1

            user2:password2

            ...

       Passwords are not encoded. Take care of the file ownership and
       permissions.

   ACCEPT AND REJECT FILES
       If a file called accept is present in ~/.brag/<server>/<group>, its
       lines are added to the list of accept patterns. Empty ones and comments
       starting with "#" are ignored. Similarly, the contents of the file
       named reject will be added to the list of reject patterns.

EXIT CODES
       0      Success

       1      Usage errors

       2      Network errors

       3      File system errors

ENVIRONMENT
       If not specified on the command line, the environment variable
       NNTPSERVER identifies the server, while NNTPGROUP the group to read the
       news from.

DEPENDENCIES
       brag is written in Tcl; you need tclsh(1) version 8.0 or later. For the
       actual decoding of dowloaded parts uudeview(1)
       (http://www.fpx.de/fp/Software/UUDeview) is used.

AUTHOR
       Akos Polster (akos@pipacs.com) and many others - see README for the
       complete list of contributors.

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