Re: [Pan-users] pan on windows

2022-03-31 Thread John Wendel
On 3/27/22 03:33, Dominique Dumont wrote: On Friday, 25 March 2022 20:31:09 CEST John Wendel wrote: I'm using PAN on a Linux Mint box and also see these ".msg" and ".ERROR" files. But only on a small subset of the binary files I download. I have no clue what trigger

Re: [Pan-users] pan on windows

2022-03-25 Thread John Wendel
Just to add to the confusion ... I'm using PAN on a Linux Mint box and also see these ".msg" and ".ERROR" files. But only on a small subset of the binary files I download. I have no clue what triggers this behavior. I also see the actual data files split into many smaller files with one fi

Re: [Pan-users] nzb download errors and bombing out.

2021-09-30 Thread John Wendel
FYI, the download errors with thousands of "copy" files can be recovered ON LINUX - Don't know about other systems [1] - delete the *ERROR* files [2] - find the target "not-a-copy" file in the batch [3] - copy the file from [2] to a new file "XXX" [4] - append all the "copy" files to "XXX"

Re: [Pan-users] Downloaded articles format

2021-05-12 Thread John Wendel
On 5/12/21 11:23 AM, Zan Lynx wrote: On 5/11/21 5:09 PM, Beata Kasprzyk wrote:  I would like to download the Polish Usenet articles as a .txt files. I am a quiet new at using Pan, but I have downloaded articles via Pan in the past, and they were saved in .txt format. Unfortunately now they are

Re: [Pan-users] Have you ever used pan to download and display yEnc encoded messages?

2021-03-13 Thread John Wendel
or recognition of the file content. When I select [Read Article] from the [Articles] menu I am delivered an unresponsive 'Attachments:' to the pan Body Pane. That is the state of my art. I run linux John: What behavior do you see? What is the magic that happens? -Rick On 03/12/21 16:3

Re: [Pan-users] Have you ever used pan to download and display yEnc encoded messages?

2021-03-12 Thread John Wendel
Rick yENC decoding is built into PAN. You don't have to do anything special to make it work, just download a yENC encoded file and magic happens. Regards, John On 3/12/21 4:23 PM, Rickbrown wrote: Have you ever used pan to download and display yEnc encoded binary images messages? How?

Re: [Pan-users] yEnc.msg files and formats

2021-03-12 Thread John Wendel
you ever used pan to download and display yEnc encoded messages?" On 03/12/21 09:04, John Wendel wrote: Very strange, when I try to download headers in this group, PAN crashes. I would guess that this group is being used (like many others) to distribute encrypted files of copyrighted material.

Re: [Pan-users] yEnc.msg files and formats

2021-03-12 Thread John Wendel
Very strange, when I try to download headers in this group, PAN crashes. I would guess that this group is being used (like many others) to distribute encrypted files of copyrighted material. Running latest PAN on Linux Mint. Regards - John On 3/11/21 7:23 PM, Sarah Taylor wrote: My ISP lists

Re: [Pan-users] Moribund Lists??

2019-01-26 Thread John Wendel
On 1/26/19 1:10 PM, Beartooth wrote: Several of the lists that I follow via Gmane and Pan seem not to have had a new post in weeks or months. I'm beginning to wonder if I really just need to bid them adieu -- or if I could be falling foul of something in my beloved Pan? Has anyone else se

Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

2017-01-22 Thread John Wendel
On 01/22/2017 06:35 PM, Dave wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 16:03:09 -0800, John Wendel wrote: On 01/22/2017 12:26 PM, Dave wrote: Is there any way at all to get Pan to filter and DELETE posts on sight? There's a binaries group currently being swamped by very, very large numbers of post

Re: [Pan-users] Pan rules/filters

2017-01-22 Thread John Wendel
On 01/22/2017 12:26 PM, Dave wrote: Is there any way at all to get Pan to filter and DELETE posts on sight? There's a binaries group currently being swamped by very, very large numbers of post. So many that Pan and the OS is not reacting well to a group with a couple million posts in it. ie al

Re: [Pan-users] Pan for windows max connections...

2013-12-28 Thread John Wendel
On 12/28/2013 10:14 AM, Alan Meyer wrote: John Lewis wrote: Is there a way to configure pan to have connections greater than 4? The gui seems to override any changes made to the XML file for this property. I recommend that you check your actual download speed both before and after switching

Re: [Pan-users] using ssl via stunnel4

2011-06-18 Thread john wendel
On 06/18/2011 10:50 PM, robby wrote: Can anyone give this ssl noob info on setting up pan 0.135 to run ssl? I have stunnel4 installed, and have gone through the man entry for stunnel4 and am more lost than when I started. My news provider is APN, and it lists ports 443 and 593(I think 593 is the

Re: [Pan-users] Checking server for missing parts

2010-01-03 Thread john wendel
On 01/03/2010 06:00 PM, Wayne E. Nail wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 15:52 -0800, john wendel wrote: On 01/03/2010 01:14 PM, Wayne E. Nail wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:01 -0800, john wendel wrote: Anyone know how to check a news server for missing message parts, without downloading the data

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Many Binaries Cannot Be Shown In Pan

2010-01-03 Thread john wendel
On 01/03/2010 03:42 PM, Timothy J. Hamilton wrote: On Sat January 2 2010 19:37:28 Scott Pettigrew wrote: Wow, Travis, thanks for advancing the conversation and putting me in my place. At first I got really mad and wrote a much snarkier reply, but thought better of it. I hope you accept my apol

Re: [Pan-users] Checking server for missing parts

2010-01-03 Thread john wendel
On 01/03/2010 01:14 PM, Wayne E. Nail wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 13:01 -0800, john wendel wrote: Anyone know how to check a news server for missing message parts, without downloading the data? Using pan? Ideally, I'd like to feed an NZB file to something and have it tell me which part

[Pan-users] Checking server for missing parts

2010-01-03 Thread john wendel
Anyone know how to check a news server for missing message parts, without downloading the data? Using pan? Ideally, I'd like to feed an NZB file to something and have it tell me which parts are available and missing. Thanks, John ___ Pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] I have problems with some binary postings using yEnc

2010-01-03 Thread john wendel
On 01/02/2010 09:48 PM, SciFi wrote: Hi, My build of Pan here is having extreme difficulties with binary postings that are in yEnc format but not marked on the Subject line as such. See the clips below for what I mean, please. I looked into where Pan stores each Message-ID (its articles-cach

Re: [Pan-users] I have problems with some binary postings using yEnc

2010-01-03 Thread john wendel
On 01/03/2010 10:05 AM, john wendel wrote: On 01/02/2010 09:48 PM, SciFi wrote: Hi, My build of Pan here is having extreme difficulties with binary postings that are in yEnc format but not marked on the Subject line as such. [snip] Thank you for any help. Just a data point. I

Re: [Pan-users] I have problems with some binary postings using yEnc

2010-01-03 Thread john wendel
On 01/02/2010 09:48 PM, SciFi wrote: Hi, My build of Pan here is having extreme difficulties with binary postings that are in yEnc format but not marked on the Subject line as such. See the clips below for what I mean, please. I looked into where Pan stores each Message-ID (its articles-cach

Re: [Pan-users] OT: nzb or group searching or ??

2009-12-09 Thread john wendel
On 12/09/2009 06:46 PM, Timothy J. Hamilton wrote: On Wednesday 09 December 2009 21:27:59 vr wrote: Please excuse these off-topic bits but since knowledgeable usenet veterans lurk here I figured it worth a shot. I've tried bin search dot com a number of times and usually come up short with some

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan 1.33, Windows XP and GTK themes

2009-07-28 Thread john wendel
On 07/28/2009 09:04 PM, Travis wrote: - Original Message - From: "walt" To: Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 17:43 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Pan 1.33, Windows XP and GTK themes On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:53:50 -0700, Travis wrote: - Original Message - From: "Steve Davies" To: Sent

[Pan-users] Broken image display

2009-07-01 Thread john wendel
After "upgrading" to Fedora 11, Pan version 0.133, I'm seeing a lot of the following errors Attachment not shown: MIME type image/jpeg; filename img254.jpg Some images display OK, but most get this error. Any clues? Thanks, John ___ Pan-users m

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Message Search

2008-04-11 Thread john wendel
William Scalione wrote: Duncan wrote >I'm not familiar with newsrover, but from your description, it must be >using a server-side database. Pan doesn't do anything like that yet, >and >I know of no Linux apps that do. >However... have you tried running newsrover in WINE? Again, I don't

[Pan-users] Possible bug - need clarification

2007-08-06 Thread John Wendel
Running Pan 0.131. I subscribe to several large binary groups that get thousands of messages a day. Sometimes I see the following situation, and I don't know if I should report a bug, so maybe someone could comment. Frequently, messages will have missing articles. So I ignore them for a while,

Re: [Pan-users] Re: PAN and Kubuntu

2006-11-14 Thread John Wendel
Duncan wrote: André Fettouhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:57:48 +0100: I have just started using PAN and I have some small problems with it. When I download rar files, sometime PAN says that a file is broken/corrupted and hence is not

Re: [Pan-users] Coming April 1: Pan 0.90

2006-03-20 Thread John Wendel
Charles Kerr wrote: I've kept mum on this for a /long/ time because I didn't know when I'd have it ready, but here's a nice April Fool's gift for you... :) cheers, Charles == Pan 0.90 is the first beta of a ground-up rewrite

Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers?

2005-08-13 Thread John Wendel
Phillip Pi wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 10:21:31AM -0700, John Wendel wrote: Phillip Pi wrote: Hello, Is it me or does Pan v0.14.2.91 fail to handle large numbers of headers from a newsgroup? I tried to download about 3,044,000 headers from alt.binaries.hdtv newsgroup. My computer

Re: [Pan-users] Pan cannot handle large numbers of headers?

2005-08-13 Thread John Wendel
Phillip Pi wrote: Hello, Is it me or does Pan v0.14.2.91 fail to handle large numbers of headers from a newsgroup? I tried to download about 3,044,000 headers from alt.binaries.hdtv newsgroup. My computer choked at about 1,900,000 headers when I came back from a 30 minutes break. HDD light was