NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

It supports decoding data in the following formats:

MIME

The following message formats are supported: multipart/mixed, message/partial; the following encodings are supported: base64, quoted printable, x-uuencode.

uuencode

Both single- and multi-posting binaries.

yEnc

Both single- and multi-posting binaries.

The following flags are supported:

-c-,-mark-complete

Mark only parts of complete files as read.

-h-,-help

Show a short usage.

-n-,-newsrc FILE

Use FILE as newsrc file.

-p-,-pass PASS

Use PASS as password for authentication.

-s-,-server SERVER

Use SERVER as NNTP server. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.

-u-,-user USER

Use USER as user for authentication.

-V-,-version

Show release information.

cg reads the XOVER record from the news server for each group given on the command line and tries to assemble all unread binaries in this group. Then cg spawns an editor (taken from the VISUAL or EDITOR environment variables, or defaulting to vi(1)) where the user can delete all lines of unwanted binaries. After leaving the editor, the binaries corresponding to undelete lines are decoded and saved in the current directory.

Comments in 0-parts or around the encoded data are saved in the file ``filename.desc''; broken files (problems during decoding, missing parts due to expiration) are saved as ``filename.broken''. Files are not overwritten, rather ``.1'', ``.2'', ... is appended to the filename to make it unique.

ENVIRONMENT

Set the NNTPSERVER environment variable to choose your newsserver (which must support xover records), or use the -s flag. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are supported.

BUGS