Browsing

Everytime you open a new news group for viewing in the main tab (Servers and Groups) a new Catalog tab page is opened. Each page displays the contents of one particular group.

Columns

Typically the following columns are displayed.

• B - Article is binary
• N - Article is new
• D - Article is downloaded
• W - Article has a warning (not all of the data is available)
• B - Article is bookmarked
• L - Article is linked
• KB - Article size in kilo bytes
• Subject - Article subject

Additionally the following fields may be displayed if they were selected when then the headers were originally downloaded

• Author - The author of the article
• Date - The date the article was posted

Find options

Regular expression: Regular expressions provide more flexible and powerful way to define search criteria, however they run somewhat slower. To learn more about regular expressions visit http://regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html

Match case: Case matching defines whether the capitalization of search criteria matters. When enabled "example" does not match "EXAMPLE". Case matching search usually runs somewhat faster.

Touch & Reload

Touch is a simply a feature to bring more of the catalog data into memory ahead of time. In other words this means that the memory consumption will increase but operations such as Find, or Next/Previous bookmark will execute faster. But don't worry, if you don't use this feature explicitly Newsflash Plus will use it for you in order to try to provide maximum execution speed.

Reload simply reloads the group data and refreshes the view.

Article linking

Article linking is a way to manually combine several adjacent items into a single article for download. Typically this feature is useful if you find that the several articles should belong together, in other words a non-standard notation was used to specify several NNTP articles that belong together in order to comprise a single binary. But because a non-standard Subject line notation was used the reader was unable to match these items automatically. In this scenario one can work around the problem by selecting all such items and linking them together and then selecting any single one of the articles for download. At this point the download process considers these items to belong to the same binary.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT LINKING
Please note that linking only works reliably if the actual article data contains enough information to reconstruct the encoded binary. This is the typical case with binaries encoded with yEnc (if the binary is encoded with yEnc the word "yEnc" appears in the subject line) but binaries with other encodings may fail.