Introduction

PicMonger is an automated NNTP (Usenet News) client. In short, you point it at your news server, select a group, and it scans the available (and not previously scanned) posts for UUencoded or MIME base64-encoded binaries (e.g. a JPEG image). When a binary is found, it is automatically decoded back to its original form. If desired, PicMonger can also create thumbnail preview pages, viewable in any web browser.

Features

Intuitive GUI design
Automatic customizable HTML thumbnail preview page generation
Thumbnails maintain same aspect ratio as the original, within a size constraint specified by the user
Inter-session group memory (resumes scanning a newsgroup where you left off)
Inter-session options memory (remembers all of your customized settings)
GUI-based mangement of server and newsgroup lists
Fixes filenames to be ext2fs (Linux/Unix) friendly before they are written
Screens files and decodes only the file types you select
Easy installation (uses GNU autoconf/automake)
Error logging for easy troubleshooting (rarely an issue)
Distributed under the GNU GPL

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Requirements

PicMonger requires the following to be fully functional:

GTK 1.2
GTK-- and libSigC++ (C++ wrapper for GTK)
uudecode (standard on most Unix-oid systems)
mpack

Note that the -devel packages for Gtk/Gtk-- are needed in order to compile the program!!

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Development

PicMonger is an Open Source project distributed under the GNU GPL. It is written entirely in C++, using the GTK-- package noted above. If you think you might be interested in contributing to the project, check out the developers' page here.

Contact

You can contact the primary author at the email address below, which has been mutilated in an attempt to elude the spam engines:

DrDave at PenguinPowered dot com