On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 03:54:48 +0000, SciFi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:37:23 +0200, Heinrich Mueller wrote:
>> […]
>> (btw, you _could_ use uudeview to check the files...
>
> I forgot to mention that I _did_ try uudeview first.
> Running with the same two messages:
>
> $ uudeview -i *msg Note: No encoded data found in
> pan$b6a6c$56fdd301$760b57bc$2d431223$1...@scifi.homeip.net.msg Note: No
> encoded data found in
> pan$b86ee$2a1d3c06$24b39e70$158bb923$1...@scifi.homeip.net.msg
Should be fixed, see attachment ...
>
> Even with -d and/or -z or -z2, same result: no encoded data found.
>
> Its usage text says in part:
>
> UUDEVIEW 0.5pl20 - the nice and friendly decoder - (w) 1994 Frank
> Pilhofer
>
> I believe that's still current after all these years. ;)
>
> Anyway,
> It seems yydecode can give us better indications of what's wrong with
> those posts (already shown earlier in this thread).
>
> What I might not trust, is the _encoder_ used by uuEnview for the yEnc
> method. I'm afraid there's been some adjustments made to the way
> encoding should be done, since 1994, as I distinctly remember there were
> problems in the early days of yEnc.
>
> That's why I keep insisting to ask you to study other projects such as
> yencee-at-Sourceforge, where we've already put those adjustments into
> the encoding side of things. (I'm one who wants to be sure that we
> encode the dot '.' if it is found in the 1st column, because we have
> known certain buggy servers still misflag that as an EOM indicator even
> with more text on that same line.)
This is already fixed in uuencode.c.
>
> BTW thanks for the nzb, but I also would want to download any test
> postings as text-messages, then study how they are being created on the
> server itself. I don't know how to do this with an nzb (save as
> original text), so I would need to fetch recent headers for that group
> and play around with the downloads in various fashions. ;)
>
> It would help immensely if Pan would accept a simple Message-ID string,
> and/or as part of a <news:messageid> URI thing, no matter what group
> it's in, and try to fetch it directly. (We have this mechanism in OSX,
> but I don't know how to use the mechanism to invoke a non-native X11
> app,
> which would be the reverse of the Pan-to-webbrowserURL logic that
> already exists in Pan for OSX browsers, I wonder if I ought to try
> working on it sometime somehow.)
I'll see to implement a drag-n-drop feature that does that...
>
> Another BTW, I have started a discussion on the Xquartz-devel list/group
> (it's available on Gmane), as we're trying to find out how to debug
> other aspects of this version of X11 etc.
> Either I try fixing things with Apple's problems, as well,
> or I very definitely am going to jump-ship sooner than later. ;)
Good luck, and don't get wet. ;)
>
> Thanks for putting up with me. I hope we can make Pan the best open
> free newsreader ever. :)
No problem, you make me aware of the bugs to be fixed, that's cool.
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