Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 00:00:57 +0100:
> I know this issue has come up before, but as we're getting towards the > final version of Pan, can some consideration be given to those who wish > to post to binary newsgroups? > > Currently, I have to do this independently of Pan, as Pan contains no > facilities to encode the binary postings. > > It has been suggested before that anybody wishing to post binaries > should use newspost, but I should like to see a facility within Pan > (either through a hook or plugin) to utilise newspost. > > Can this be done, so that posting and receiving should be done within > the same gui? There are no guis under development either for Gnome or > KDE, and what is available do not work with either the new versions of > those desktops or with the latest version of newspost, and in case they > are separate from the newsreader. > > Are there any plans to incorporate the facilities of newspost in Pan? No immediate plans (pre-1.0), no, and I'm guessing it would take the form of pan doing it itself rather than being a front-end when the feature is eventually added. FWIW, I had a very (as in extremely) crude script designed to be plugged in as pan's external editor that would do it, and had posted it in the past so you can check the archives. It uses uuenview from the uudeview package to do the dirty work. I've improved the script a bit since but ran into an unrelated issue testing it (my provider's test group now doesn't take binaries and I didn't know that so thought it was a problem with the script, and haven't got a chance to go back and try again now that I got confirmation that the group I was testing in wasn't taking binaries so it wasn't my script). I normally have a bit of time later in the week (Thursday-ish) to work on stuff, and am hoping to get back to it this week. If/when I do, I'll probably post it on my webspace this time, as a bit more permanent than simply posting it to the group/list every so often, and post a link here. As I said, the script is crude. Basically, you place a couple lines in the post body specifying the file name and encoding style, like this: %%ENCODE=yenc%% %%ATFILE=/path/to/file%% Then hit the external editor button (which should be set to pan-attach %t), and if it works the way it's supposed to, it'll encode the file and attach it after the sig. Nothing GUI, and as originally posted, if one forgot the exact format of the special lines, one had to open up the script in an editor to figure it out. I had created it and posted it, tho extremely crude, as a proof of concept, hoping someone else would pick it up and do something better with it. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to happen. Thus, my latest changes add a -h/--help test and spit out the instructions if it's called with that, so at least one can run it from the command line and get the format one needs to use, instead of having to load the script in an editor to check every time as I was before. Eventually, I want to set it up to use kdialog/xdialog/whatever-replaced-gdialog, giving it a proper GUI. That's what I was hoping someone else would do. However, since it hasn't happened, I decided to add at least the help output, for now. Then I ran into the testing issues, and also seemed to have another issue with yEnc but didn't trace it due to the server related problems. Anyway, hopefully with a bit of testing on a proper binary test group, I can get it working again later this week and post the URL to a slightly improved version. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
