Usenet Explorer

When I start headerdownload I see full speed but the first headers I see after ~30 sec.

Why this delay?

Is it possible to calculate the header-- "lines" in "megabyte" ??

Depends on what it does, if it is rescan it downloads headers only after rescan, when you change retention it also needs a form of rescan. If you download headers for a number of groups it processes headers in sequence so the newsgroup you wait them in may be not the first. If you start usual get headers - headers appear quite fast, at most in a few seconds.

I can not find the simply "get headers "... Only "get new headers" and other.

yes, i meant 'get new headers' and 'rescan headers'

Is there a function to read the post body of a binary file?

the temporary files are generated in the newspro database temp directory, i think it doesn't generate everything but attachment after attachment, i don't remember, you'll see there files with the extension '.post', maybe you'll be able to open them in editor although not much to look there.

When I double click a textposting I can open "source" and can see from which server the posting came and the postingtool etc.
Can I see that on a binary post to?

forgot, yes, you can open it as usual article in post menu->posted messages through the split window (window menu->split/unsplit), since if you use double click or enter it will open the post dialog.

you can see everything there, just instead of attachments there are paths and other settings of the post dialog are in the header (just the way for the program to remember them).

I don't understand. If I have the split window active and enter or double click the header - it starts to download the body. I can not see the source?

(I don't want to see my own postings source)

yes, you need to download it first, there is no direct source (except for temp files that are deleted as soon the post has been completed), in fact as to the newspro side file transmission is guarantied to be ok. to doublecheck it was posted ok you need to download it and decode it back.

i mean there is a window for posted messages, post menu->posted messages, if you select a message and use split window you'll see the post message source (it is rather a template, not the full source), but anyway better to doubleclick it and see the same content in the post window in a normal form.

And if you click the button on the toolbar to disable 'Autosupport for partial messages' then you can see each individual piece of a multipart binary. Once you download the body of one of those pieces you can view the source the same was as normal, though I can't imagine there is much to look at.

Also if you double-click one of the progress bars as a file is downloading it will open that article.