HOWTO_Powergrab
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What is Powergrab?
- Powergrab is a Newsgroup reader and binary downloader for Windows. Development has stopped and their website has gone down (http://cosmicwolf.com). However, I was able to get my hands on a release from 2002 (the latest 2.6-rc1) and decided to test it in Wine.
Getting Powergrab
- CosmicWolf, the website where Powergrab was hosted, has gone down as have the files it was hosting. The files are now hosted on one of my personal sites.
- Get Powergrab 2.6-RC1
Dependencies
- For installation you will only need the latest Wine (tested with >0.9.6).
- You will also need unzip for the archive.
Installing
- To install you will first need a default Wine installation. Then you should make a directory in your Program Files for Powergrab:
mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Powergrab
- Then you will need to move over the powergrab archive and unzip it.
- Afterwards, while in the Powergrab directory, you will have to make two more directories otherwise Powergrab will fail saying it cannot save files:
mkdir DATA mkdir MESSAGES
Note: Both are case sensitive
Running Powergrab
- After installing you will have to make a directory in which all Newsgroup messages and binaries will be held. For example:
mkdir ~/.wine/drive_c/newsgroups
- Afterwards you can now run Powergrab in your Installation directory with the command:
wine POWRGRAB.EXE
- A configuration window should pop up the first time you run it which should be filled out.
- After proper configuration you can right click on the Newsgroups window and select Server Newsgroups List where you can choose which newsgroups to subscribe to.
- After clicking on a newsgroup a Save-To window should pop up and you should choose the directory you used earlier.
- To update a Newsgroup just right click on it and hit scan.
Troubleshooting
Concerns or Compliments? Please use the Discussion section.
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