oldschool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 16:13:25 -0800:
> I check in on many groups only occasionally. The header download for a > seldom visited mp3 group can take a dozen minutes or more. I realize > juggling 300,000+ articles in a group will ALWAYS be slow, but would a > batch script that retrieved new headers for subscribed groups save some > of that time? You say seldom visited, then mention retrieving new headers for subscribed groups. You /are/ aware of the pan action to do just that, right? You don't have to visit the group to get new headers. In fact, I have both get new headers at pan start and get new headers when entering a group preference settings turned off, and /only/ use the on-demand get headers functions, usually the "for subscribed groups" function, but occasionally just the "for selected group" function, when I'm just wanting to update one particular group. The get new headers buttons are the second (subscribed groups) and third (selected group) on the toolbar, while the corresponding menu entries are on the Groups menu. The preference settings I mentioned are on the first tab (behavior) of the preferences dialog. > Can I off-load (pre-load?) any of the wait? Depending on what exactly you mean and how fancy you want to get, absolutely. Using the preference settings and get new headers functions discussed above, you can set things up fairly flexibly. Beyond that, see below. > Does anyone know of another program/script that fetches header info in a > form pan can use? OR any reasonable form, I'll try to hack something > together if there's interest. The pan tasks list file is the standard nzb format. It's possible to feed pan an nzb file at the command line (pan --help for the details) and have it load and run that rather than the default (which will normally be empty unless you quit pan with pending tasks). There's also a command line option that tells pan not to load the GUI when fetching from a nzb file in this manner. Thus, it's possible to setup a cron job or the like, scheduling pan to download <whatever> at set times, so it's already there when you run pan normally. This had actually been a requested feature for some time, but it was only implemented with new-pan (>0.90). -- 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 Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
