{"id":476,"date":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","date_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdhouse.org\/betips\/?p=476"},"modified":"1997-09-09T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"1997-09-09T09:36:29","slug":"slrn-decode-usenet-binaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"slrn: Decode USENET binaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At this time, there are no graphical newsreaders for BeOS that can easily display or launch uuencoded USENET binaries. However, the command-line <a href=\"\/chunga.php?ID=336\">SLRN<\/a> newsreader makes this pretty easy. If you don&#8217;t have SLRN running already, get it installed and familiarize yourself with basic navigation.<br \/>\nNow, make sure you have a directory <code>\/boot\/home\/News<\/code>.<br \/>\nIf you want to decode a single-article binary, just select it in SLRN and tap <code>:<\/code> (the colon key). SLRN will suggest a filename for the raw file data &#8212; something like:<\/p>\n<pre>\/boot\/home\/News\/alt.binaries.pictures.fractals<\/pre>\n<p>Accept this filename by pressing &#8222;y&#8220; and SLRN will save the raw data to disk. When done, SLRN will ask whether you want it decoded. Press &#8222;y&#8220; and the uuencoded file will be passed to uudecode, which comes bundled with BeOS. When finished, you should have a new .jpg or .mp3 or whatever file in your ~\/News folder, which you can double-click to launch. You&#8217;ll be asked whether you want to delete the input file. You&#8217;ll probably want to say yes.<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re dealing with a binary which spans multiple articles, you&#8217;ll need to tag those articles first so SLRN can treat them as a batch. Just press <code>#<\/code> next to each article header and the pieces will be numbered 1-7 or whatever. With the articles tagged, press <code>:<\/code> and proceed as above.<br \/>\nBefore going to grab another binary, you&#8217;ll need to untag the currently tagged articles &#8212; do this with Esc-#.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this time, there are no graphical newsreaders for BeOS that can easily display or launch uuencoded USENET binaries. However, the command-line SLRN newsreader makes this pretty easy. If you don&#8217;t have SLRN running already, get it installed and familiarize yourself with basic navigation. Now, make sure you have a directory \/boot\/home\/News. If you want [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-applications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.betips.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}