General Infomation for QuadSucker/News
(C) Scott M. Baker

email: smbaker@quadsucker.com, smbaker@sb-software.com
website: http://www.quadsucker.com/quadnews/

Purpose:

  QuadSucker/News is a multithreaded news downloader that downloads four
  binaries concurrently. By downloading four things at once, QuadSucker/News is
  usually 4 times faster than conventional single-threaded news downloaders.
  QuadSucker/News is designed to handle all kinds of binary newsgroups, from
  picture groups to music and movie groups where the attachments can reach
  hundreds of megabytes in size. QuadSucker/News supports yEnc and all other
  message posting formats (uuencode, base64, etc). QuadSucker/News has an
  advanced built-in multi-part message assembly algorithm that will piece
  together complicated and confusing multi-part binaries. QuadSucker/News
  handles all possible types of attachments: GIF, JPEG, MP3, MPG, RAR, etc.
  There are extensive filtering capabilities (black and white lists) to stop
  spam. There's also a handy pick-and-choose mode that lets you decide and
  prioritize which news attachments you want to download. QuadSucker/News is
  very versatile and intended for not only people who want no-hassle automatic
  downloading, but also those who want to decide exactly what gets downloaded.
  Built in automatic duplicate checker, thumbnail viewers, and full-featured
  image viewer and sorter. Shareware version is fully functional with no time
  limits, expiration, or disabled features.
  Supports Windows 95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP.

Installation:

  The automatic installation program should handle all the details of setting
  up QuadSucker/News on your computer. [If you are reading this, then you've
  probably already run the installer!].

  The installer should place a "QuadSucker/News" icon on your desktop, and
  a program group in your start menu.

QuadSucker/News in the following package:

  1) QDNEWSxx.ZIP ... 32-bit, Windows-95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP (ZIP archive)
  2) QDNEWSxx.EXE ... 32-bit, Windows-95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP (Self Extracting)

License Agreement:

  The full text of the license agreement is available in the file
  license.txt. By installing this software you agree to all terms in that
  agreement.

Documentation is included in this archive in two formats:

  1) HTML format: QUADNEWS.HTM, etc

     HTML format (HyperText Markup Language) files may be loaded by your
     web browser, or various html utilities. The file is formatted much
     nicer in HTML than in the plain ascii format below.

  2) Ascii format: QUADNEWS.DOC, etc

     A conversion of the HTML format files to plain ascii. If you don't
     have a program that understands html, you can use these files.

Distribution:

  This program is shareware. The unregistered shareware version of this
  software may be distributed under the conditions specified in
  the file license.txt.



