Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 02 Jan 2008 12:07:56 -0800:
> Also: I guess I'm not the only one to say it, but expanding Pan to post > binary attachments might be nice too. Seems to be a big disadvantage > vis a vis XNews etc etc. Other than these things, I like Pan very much. That's been on the todo list "forever", and at this point, seems likely to stay that way. Several years ago, one of the betas actually had a (not-yet-working) UI interface for posting single-piece binaries, but Charles yanked it out again. He apparently wasn't satisfied with it, as it didn't handle multi- parts nor do stuff like par, etc. IMO, however, long before this point, the perfect has become the enemy of the good. "Trivial" (that is, single part) binary posting would be far better than what we have now, and the usual answer, to use newspost or the like, could remain, for batch-posting. Meanwhile, I hacked up a method to use pan's external editor feature to post "trivial" attachments with. For technical reasons (the external editor not getting access to the headers, new-pan not allowing arbitrary 8-bit in the edit window on return from the external editor), it's rather limited, but it works for "identity", that is, simply copying in the text of a file, not attachment per se, and uuencoding, at least. With old-pan it worked (from my tests) with yEnc as well, but the rewrite changed the way the edit-window works, so it won't work with yEnc either, leaving only UUE. It's bash script, and available in two versions, both requiring uudeview be installed to handle the actual encoding. The first version only requires that but was a very rough proof of concept, so is quite difficult to use (no UI of its own, it works by scanning for keywords in the text copied to it). As such, it's available but it's unlikely I'll ever do further updates on it. The second version uses kdialog, part of kdebase, for a UI. It's far easier to use, but non-KDE-users may not want the dependency. A number of folks have used this version, however, with a couple feeding back patches (which I have yet to incorporate, but likely will at some point). pan-attach (first version) and pan-attach-kd. For more info, download and either look at them with an editor, or just set them executable and run them from a terminal window. If run without parameters or with --help, they'll spit out the expected help, including instructions. http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/ -- 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
