Re: [Pan-users] Pan-users Digest, Vol 106, Issue 10

2011-11-09 Thread Graham Lawrence
> Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 01:40:12 + (UTC) Excerpted From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > > LF=" > " > Yes, I use this form a lot also, but only with echo and bash concatenation, because it is utterly reliable there, and I use the ANSI-C hex form only with IFS. Its a result of googling for ans

Re: [Pan-users] Automating NZB downloads

2011-11-09 Thread Graham Lawrence
> Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:41:42 -0600 Excerpted From: Ron Johnson > > Disks are cheap.  (Well, they were before the Thai flooding.) > They are, but I'm incredibly lazy about some things. So I watch movies from the HD, and only burn them if I feel I'll want to watch it again, otherwise I just t

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-08 Thread Graham Lawrence
> Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:23:28 + (UTC) Excerpted From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > LOL!  I don't know about your end, but your description of it was > certainly worth the trouble of all that explanation from my end. =:^) > I'm glad. A slight return for all the trouble you've taken on m

[Pan-users] Automating NZB downloads

2011-11-08 Thread Graham Lawrence
>>> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:15:54 -0600 >>> Excerpted From: Ron Johnson >> > That sounds like a weird use of arrays. > Its a great convenience. If you have a list of items and you are interested only in one or two of them, using an array gives you instant identification of them, like so:- IFS=

Re: [Pan-users] Pan-users Digest, Vol 106, Issue 8

2011-11-07 Thread Graham Lawrence
> Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 20:15:54 -0600 > From: Ron Johnson >> pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb "${nzb[1]}" 2>/home/g/pan.debug >> > > Slight topic change: are you trying to d/l from a list of nzb files? > Yes and no. I download nzbs manually into a directory, at odd intervals. In the scrip

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-07 Thread Graham Lawrence
Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2011 19:16:10 + (UTC) Excerpted mostly From: Duncan I hope this amuses, and doesn't tug anyone's off-topic whiskers too much. >> Turns out the problem was my quoting the quotes with \. > > IIRC I mentioned that quote-escaping, since what that was effectively > doing was kil

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-06 Thread Graham Lawrence
Dang, this is a fine group, where I've been introduced to newsgroups and the intricacies of downloading from nzbs, what I guess should be called implicit compound conditionals in Bash, several new linux commands, and how to use email. And my Pan download completed using pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Fi

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Graham Lawrence
Please excuse my last 2 posts, I received a note that I should not top-post, so to those two, I bottom-posted, which seems even worse. This time I'm deleting all the repeated text by hand. Perhaps one of you would be kind enough to say if this produces the proper format for your mailing list. ___

Re: [Pan-users] Pan-users Digest, Vol 106, Issue 3

2011-11-05 Thread Graham Lawrence
Nov 2011 22:26:33 + (UTC) > From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Command line use;      download of nzb files does >        not stop > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Graham Lawrence po

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-05 Thread Graham Lawrence
Nov 2011 22:26:33 + (UTC) > From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Command line use;      download of nzb files does >        not stop > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Graham Lawrence po

Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-03 Thread Graham Lawrence
s digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >   1. Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop >      (Graham Lawrence) >   2. Re: Command line use;     download of nzb files does not stop (Duncan) > > > ---

[Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

2011-11-01 Thread Graham Lawrence
In a bash script I use pan --no-gui -o /home/g/Films --nzb \"${nzb[1]}\" 2>/home/g/pan.debug && if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then dem 1; exit 1; fi to download through an nzb file The download process will not terminate, instead it downloads duplicates of files already obtained, e.g. from ls Gangs of New

Re: [Pan-users] .nzb download seems to be going to /dev/null

2011-09-26 Thread Graham Lawrence
; From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Subject: Re: [Pan-users] .nzb download seems to be going to /dev/null > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > Lacrocivious Acrophosist posted on Sun, 25 Sep 2011 19:50:33 +0000 as > excerpt

Re: [Pan-users] .nzb download seems to be going to /dev/null

2011-09-25 Thread Graham Lawrence
..@nongnu.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Pan-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >   1. .nzb download seems to be going to /dev/null (Graham Lawrence) >   2. Re: .nzb download seems to b

[Pan-users] .nzb download seems to be going to /dev/null

2011-09-24 Thread Graham Lawrence
Downloading files via .nzb file, but although Pan seems to be behaving normally, the files are not appearing anywhere on my system. Its as if they are going to /dev/null. I've had this problem before if I opened the download directory before clicking Save, and solved it by selecting, but not openi

Re: [Pan-users] Newbie question about unviewable posts

2011-09-15 Thread Graham Lawrence
ging the list at >        pan-users-ow...@nongnu.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Pan-users digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > >   1. Re: [Semi-OT] git question (was Re: Handy new     feature...)

Re: [Pan-users] Newbie question about unviewable posts

2011-09-15 Thread Graham Lawrence
In response to Heinrich Mueller's comment on my previous post > > Did you notice that there's no References header in this reply? > Odd... google gives no access to the Subject line when Replying, so in order to honor your system's request that its Digest Subject line be be replaced by a referenc

Re: [Pan-users] Newbie question about unviewable posts

2011-09-14 Thread Graham Lawrence
My thanks to Jim Henderson, Duncan and Steven D'Aprano for their responses. The behavior was as described in Steven D'Aprano's links re Astraweb, including fragmented trees. I regret I do not remember the particular groups involved with the exact symptom I described, but any of the groups beginni

[Pan-users] Newbie question about unviewable posts

2011-09-13 Thread Graham Lawrence
I click the post header in the top right pane, and sometimes the associated text appears in the bottom right pane, and sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't, I notice that an aqua icon in its header line is absent, which icon's presence means the article has been cached. So I cache the post with