----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kelly" <dke...@hiwaay.net> To: <pan-users@nongnu.org> Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 18:45 PM Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Problems unraring archives downloaded with PAN.
> > On Mar 18, 2009, at 8:11 PM, David Shochat wrote: > >> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 22:35:18 +0000, apebrigade wrote: >> >>> Hi. I am hoping this is the correct place to raise this problem! >>> >>> I use PAN to connect to Giganews and use .NZB files to locate the >>> files. >>> PAN seems to be working correctly and downloading all of rar files >>> correctly. My problem comes when I try to unrar the archive as it is >>> split into many files. >>> >>> I have tried: >>> >>> unrar x /filename / >>> >> rar e '*.rar' > > Suggest using par first to verify the files you have downloaded. Am > betting they are .par2 error correcting *and* then rar split. > > If you have par2cmdline installed something like this works (in C > shell): > > alias par nice +20 par2 r \*.PAR2 \*.par2 \*.PAR \*.par \| \& tee output > > And then to reassemble with rar in a directory specified on the > command line: > > alias urar mkdir \!^ \&\& nice +20 unrar x \*.RAR \*.rar "\*" \!^ > > > So in short once the above aliases are defined simply type "par" in > the directory where the files are downloaded. After everything is > checked and/or repaired then "urar /path/to/dest" where dest doesn't > yet exist. It will be created and the only thing in dest will be the > file(s) and possibly directories from the rar archive. > > You could take the "nice +20" out of each. Nice only attempts to "be > nice" and lower the process priority so other things can run. > > The unrar utility above has a sucky DOS-based command line parser. You > have to escape the * wildcard filename to tell it what to extract. Why not just double click one of the par2 files and let the magic happen. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
