Beso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sun, 18 May 2008 21:01:47 +0000:
> have you ever tried to download multiple lines articles that don't have > an article?! in these cases klibido does what it should do: saves the > ammount of data and then you could be able to repair it later via par2 > blocks. pan instead blocks the download at 99% and there isn't any > single way to have the part downloaded that far saved. this is an > enormous flaw in pan's binary management that i cannot ignore. Well, I did mention something about knowing some pan tricks. =8^) First, I use a binary client a bit differently than some. I download everything to cache first, then work with it from there. With pan, that means enlarging its cache. As with many GNOME type apps (tho pan is certainly better than many in this regard, probably the reason I still use it while long ago giving up on GNOME in general), pan doesn't want to complicate the GUI with complex config options, so cache size is only adjustable by editing the config files (in this case preferences.xml) directly. It's 10 MB by default, large enough to download and save but not large enough to download to cache as I do. I use ~12 gigs for my binary instance. (Using the PAN_HOME environmental flag and symlinks to files in common, it's possible to run multiple instances with separate configs, I run binary, text, test...) Anyway, working from cache gives me the ability to sort and save to final location while I still know the article title, poster, etc, thus the ability to use this in how and where I save the file. It may also help with saving incomplete binaries... I'm not sure on that but know I can. Second, use the Articles, Read article option to manually force pan to display what it has when it can't get the rest. Since I'm working from cache, having fetched everything I could previously, I know when this occurs so it's easier to do. Third, when saving, if it won't save as binary or screws it up, I save as text, then use uudeview to decode and save from the text files. I do use a temp working area in this case to build the final files to save off. I'm headed to work so will answer the other afterward. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
