On 15 March 2016 at 09:34, Steve Davies <davies...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > With all of the recent activity I thought it only fair that I should > assemble a new Win32 installer build. It is at the usual location: > > https://sites.google.com/site/paninstall/ > > It runs for me here but is not heavily tested as I am not a big NNTP user > anymore. My attempts in 2014 were a bit crashy, so I've attempted a more > pure GIT compile this time. > > Let me know your results here. > > Cheers, > Steve > > _______________________________________________ > Pan-users mailing list > Pan-users@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users >
I have installed this latest Windows version and here are my results: Windows 10 Pro 64 bit, version 1511, OS build 10586.164, Intel Core2 Duo E7500 @ 2.93GHz, 6GB ram I uninstalled a previous version of Pan using the Windows uninstall process. A new install would look OK, but when I actually try to run the program Pan kept failing with the message :"This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way" The fix/solution is to delete the existing C:/users/USERid/.pan2 directory before trying to install, because (I guess) the uninstaller doesn't delete it and its presence somehow messes up the new install. After deleting that directory Pan will install and run. I think I had to reboot before my ISP would recognize Pan, otherwise I got a "authentication required" error. Authentication is *not* required on my fibre-to-the-home setup. Then pan runs fine, until the article-cache fills up. This is a problem I have had with previous versions, I don't recall how many-seems like all of them for the past 5(?) or more years. I download a lot of binaries, some quite large, so even with a 100 MB article-cache it does fill up. When it does fill up, instead of stopping, or erroring, Pan keeps on downloading, but only getting fragments of some of the attachments. When I stop Pan, the article-cache is cleared by the program (because I have that option set) and then runs again OK until the article-cache fills again. For example, downloading a binary with 50 MB attachments eventually fails. You might think it with a 100 MB cache it would fail on the third file but no, it runs for a while, for quite a few files, before failing. I have increased my article-cache to 1000 MB and am running that now, but I think that also will eventually fill up. I suppose the fix is that Pan should watch the free space in the article-cache and clear out unneeded items when space is short, or clear unneeded items as soon as they are saved to disk. (I don't know how the article-cache is used so I don't know when an article is no longer needed. Seems to me it would be unneeded when saved to disk. Or if the idea is to keep as many as possible for re-use, then Pan could issue a warning and pause, not silently fail.) Thanks for the updated version. I'm sure all the other fixes are helpful to Windows users. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
