On Sun, 25 Dec 2016 14:33:21 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Jim Henderson posted on Sat, 24 Dec 2016 17:56:17 +0000 as excerpted: > >>> And IIRC I had a problem with a corrupt tasks.nzb at one point, tho >>> that should be regularly updated, so I wouldn't expect it to be the >>> problem in this case as it has been an ongoing problem for you for >>> some time, and that was a more urgent "pan won't work at all" problem >>> for me, when it got corrupted. >> >> Also good to know. I don't tend to use nzb files, but if that's a >> standard behaviour, then that could well be something to look at. > > Standard behavior indeed, as tasks.nzb is how pan stores downloads it > hasn't completed yet when it shuts down.
Good to know. :) > One thing Charles did a good job on in the pan C++ rewrite is choosing > to use established standard solutions whenever possible, even when it > meant some extra work as it did with the newsrc files because they are > only single-server and the Charles worked hard to make the pan rewrite > transparent multi-server (and did a good job at it, if I do say so!) That is a pretty good decision. :) > And since he was adding nzb support already, I guess he decided to reuse > that code to store unfinished tasks over a shutdown, as well. Which is > genius in a way, as the nzb code gets far more routine use on a far > broader set of systems than it otherwise would, that way. > > But it threw me for a loop when I had problems with it as well, because > to my knowledge I wasn't doing anything with nzbs, and at the time I had > no idea pan was actually using the file, so it was the /last/ thing I > expected to be the problem. Of course once I found out it was and I > opened it and saw the corruption, I gained both a better understanding > of how pan works, and a new appreciation for Charles' wisdom and genius > in using an established standard in a way I certainly hadn't expected. He certainly did an outstanding job getting this program up and running - and converted to OOP. :) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
