Herb Schaltegger wrote in
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On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 11:43:59 -0600, Brian Perry wrote
(in article zZtqh.2681$wq.1960@trndny07):

Link?

Pat Barnaby wrote:

This was just posted at alt.binaries.documentaries and
alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries. It is a great documentary
from 1987.


Um, he gave you the newsgroup names. What more do you want? :-)

Downloading binaries from Usenet is a bit of a black art to those of us
who are used to just clicking links. Brian probably wants to see if he's
in the video... he was an Ascent FDO back in the day. I haven't watched
the documentary yet but I'd guess there are a lot of shots of the back
of his head in there. :-)

Brian, your headers indicate you're using Mozilla 5.0. I'd recommend
another newsreader that has better handling of multipart binaries, such
as XNews (which I use) or Agent. Once you've got that, subscribe to
alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries just like you subscribed to
sci.space.shuttle. (I picked alt.binaries.multimedia.documentaries since
it has fewer articles than alt.binaries.documentaries, so the headers
will take less time to download).

Once you've downloaded the headers, the documentary in question has a
subject line starting with:

PBS Frontline docu -- The Space Shuttle -- yenc --

Select them all and download them. The main video is in .rar format,
which is like .zip but can archive across multiple files. You'll need a
RAR application (like WinRAR) to extract the video file from the RAR
files.

If your Usenet service is not great, some of the RAR files may be
incomplete. That's where the PAR2 files come in... they are parity files
that can be used to repair incomplete files. You will need to download a
PAR2 application like QuickPAR to repair the RAR files. If your Usenet
service is bad enough, there may not be enough PAR2 blocks to repair all
the broken RAR files. In that case, you are out of luck unless you
subscribe to a premium Usenet service like Giganews or Easynews.

The video is in VCD format. Once you have the video file, you'll need to
burn it to CD-R in VCD format in order to play it. Most CD burning
software supports VCD and most DVD players can play VCDs.


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