On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Ron Johnson <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > On 06/01/2011 05:34 PM, Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote: >> >> Michael, W1RC<subs@...> writes: >> >>> >>> >>> I am a new PAN user but not unfamiliar with Usenet and >>> downloading binaries. I think Pan is an outstanding app and am >>> looking forward to totally migrating from my present news reader in the >>> near future. >>> I would very much appreciate knowing if Pan has native support for PAR >>> files or does an add-on need to be installed. If this is the case >>> what are the addons required for both Windows and Linux >>> versions? >>> Thanks for all your efforts. >>> Regards, >>> Michael >>> >> >> Two GUI tools not yet mentioned are GPar2 ( >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/parchive/files/ ) and, especially for >> those >> accustomed to the QuickPAR interface, Easy Par2 for KDE ( >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ekpar2/ ). Both work well on most systems. >> I >> have come to prefer, by far, the more informative ekpar2. >> >> Depending upon your specific distro and configuration, pypar2 may run only >> once >> thereafter segfault; this happens on five systems here in the shop. >> >> I am unconvinced that par2 handling should ever be part of Pan internally. >> Make >> a tool, make it do a thing and do it well. Make the Swiss Army Knife the >> exception, not the rule ;-)
Agreed! There are already a couple of great NZB leechers, if that's what your after. >> > > Zawinski's Law: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read > mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones > which can.” Coined by Jamie Zawinski (who called it the “Law of > Software Envelopment”) to express his belief that all truly useful > programs experience pressure to evolve into toolkits and > application platforms (the mailer thing, he says, is just a side > effect of that). It is commonly cited, though with widely varying > degrees of accuracy. > > -- > "Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure > the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally > corrupt." > Samuel Adams, essay in The Public Advertiser, 1749 > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users > I use this simple shell script, and associate par2 files with it. #!/bin/sh xterm -hold -e par2repair "$1" You would need par2cmdline _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
