Portable NZB clients

[freakazoid]

In case you don't know what a NZB is, a NZB is the torrent equivalent for newsgroups:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nzb

I needed to find a portable NZB client today and stumbled across Unzbin:
http://www.unzbin.com

It reminds me of uTorrent and is portable and very small (134kb). However, it's not stealth and requires .NET 2.0.
Settings and temp folders are saved in %APPDATA% and %LOCALAPPDATA%.

If you guys know of other freeware alternatives, let me know!

[freakazoid]

A few more I came across:

(Note - I haven't tested any of these yet)

SABnzbd - http://sabnzbd.org/ - compressed 9MB - Portable instructions are available here.

alt.binz - http://www.altbinz.net/ - compressed 2MB - Homepage says that the ZIP package is portable. Not sure if it's stealth.

NiouzeFire - http://www.ideosi.fr/solutions_eng.php - compressed 15.3 MB - App has a portable version. Not sure if it's stealth.

Binreader - http://www.binreader.com - compressed 15.1MB - App has a portable version. Again, not sure if it's stealth. I'm liking the minimal UI.

[robertcollier4]

For SABnzbd first time run this on the command line to create the set of configuration files in the local directory:

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sabnzbd.exe -f sabnzbd.ini

http://www.experts123.com/q/how-do-i-ru ... ogram.html

First time running sabnzbd you will need to use a special switch. Run sabnzbd.exe with the command line parameter "-f sabnzbd.ini" and a blank settings file will be created in your sabnzbd installation folder.

For each subsequent run no need to use any command-line parameters, when SABnzbd starts up it first looks for the sabnzbd.ini in the same folder it is run from and uses those settings if available.