NewsGrabber 3.0.20 - ReadME File
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Legal Notice.
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NewsGrabber is Copyright (c) 1996-9 Trontech Pty Ltd.  
Permission is granted to distributed this distrbution 
in a complete & and unchanged form.


NewsGrabber 3.0
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The structure of the database files has changed.  
This means that databases created with a beta 
version of NG3 cannot be opened.

Some new features....

*   Multiple server support.  Complete integration of 
    multiple servers.  NewsGrabber will combine multipart 
    articles accross servers, and will download articles 
    from best available server.

*   Better server balancing.

*   In-program, mpeg/avi/mp3/wav viewer.

*   Importing files from NewsGrabber 2.1.27.

*   Two mark lists to help with sorting and queueing 
    articles.

*   Better performance.  Opening & closing databases no 
    longer takes forever.

*   Queue management.  Modify the download queue to 
    hold/release, move things up & down the queues.

*   Better multipart article support to enable article 
    resuming.

*   Better database structure.  Handles database 
    corruptions better.

*   Rate limiting to allow surfing in conjunction with 
    downloading.

*   New Auto profiles, so you can program actions
 
*   Better filtering.

*   SOCKS5 Proxy support.


Bug Reports.
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Send any bug reports to grabber@trontech.com.au.  

Trontech's home site is http://www.trontech.com.au