Re: [Pan-users] VDQ PAN Itself

2025-04-13 Thread Wayne E. Nail
I installed Pan from Dominique's GitLab on a minimally customized Fedora 41 Workstation installed on a virgin SSD in a system I don't use very much. This is mostly just a list of the commands I entered as I thrashed about trying to get all the right stuff installed to make Pan build. Some of th

Re: [Pan-users] VDQ PAN Itself

2025-04-12 Thread Wayne E. Nail
itely worth it to try and get Dumont's latest version because he has done very good things with the code and the project in general. I am pretty sure I recognize your nick from appearance over many years, so please forgive me if I am insulting your intelligence; not my intention. --Wayne

[Pan-users] Re: Questions about the next release

2010-08-06 Thread Wayne E . Nail
Charles Kerr writes: > > As has already been documented, I don't use Pan much anymore and don't > feel like I'm the best person to "steer" the project. But, that said > -- However, I've finally gotten write access again to rebelbase.com > (to be specific, my account always had it, but I'd lost

[Pan-users] Re: Reproducible crash retrieving headers in million-header group

2010-07-30 Thread Wayne E . Nail
Wayne E. Nail writes: > _ Pan died again, attempting the same newsgroup's 400-day header retrieval with the same conditions. I include this only because this time, I know that the relevant debug packages were installed *before* the Pan run. http://pastebin.or

[Pan-users] Re: Reproducible crash retrieving headers in million-header group

2010-07-30 Thread Wayne E . Nail
Zing writes: > > On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:57:09 +, Wayne E. Nail wrote: > > > Here's a wrinkle though; I run Pan in stunnel with news server set to > > localhost:119 and the secure NSP url stored in > > /etc/stunnel/stunnel.conf. Might this setup be hitting

[Pan-users] Re: Reproducible crash retrieving headers in million-header group

2010-07-30 Thread Wayne E . Nail
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@...> writes: > > K. Haley posted on Fri, 30 Jul 2010 00:43:04 -0600 as excerpted: > > > On 7/29/2010 10:51 AM, Wayne E. Nail wrote: > >> If this log is useless please tell me, and I will run Pan again under > >> the same conditions but

[Pan-users] Reproducible crash retrieving headers in million-header group

2010-07-29 Thread Wayne E . Nail
Using a fresh build from this commit: commit 7633369be756f0d0fdc6891494440773f8131624 Merge: 41a1f5c ae20158 Author: K. Haley Date: Sun Jun 20 16:13:27 2010 -0600 I am seeing reproducible failure to retrieve 400 days' headers from a newsgroup known to routinely carry one million or more artic

Re: [Pan-users] I did more testing; using another news-reader those files fetched fine.

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne E. Nail
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 07:26 +, SciFi wrote: > > Hi again, > > I got binsearch.info to whip-up a NZB for the sample file pointed to here. > (Just search on the main Subject filename as shown. Need to use binsearch's > "other groups" option for it, too.) > > This NZB looks fine, nothing is go

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

2010-01-05 Thread Wayne E. Nail
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 20:23 -0800, john wendel wrote: > Sorry I didn't make myself clear in earlier posts. > > I'm trying to understand the problem described in the "crazy christmas > lights" post. I have an NZB file (from binsearch.info) that should fetch > the data, it fails spectacularly with

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

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne E. Nail
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? Usin

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

2010-01-03 Thread Wayne E. Nail
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 parts are available and > missing. > > Thanks, > >

Re: [Pan-users] Re: The "no-break-space" problem, aka "blank" posts, that shouldn't be

2009-12-27 Thread Wayne E. Nail
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 22:50 +, Duncan wrote: > (My inet connection is up and down today, not nice with voip! I just got > a new DOCSIS 3 cable modem, the new Motorola sb6120, but unfortunately, > unlike earlier Motorolas, it doesn't have a useful diagnostics interface > at http://192.168.1

Re: [Pan-users] OT: calling all old-timers -- using * for attributions

2009-11-02 Thread Wayne E. Nail
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 14:49 +1100, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Forgive the off-topic post, but over on a newsgroup I frequent, one of > the old-timers made a claim that "*" was frequently used for > attributions back in the Good Old Days before the current crop > of "lesser quality" newsreaders. In

Re: [Pan-users] Re: So, what's left before 1.0?

2009-09-29 Thread Wayne E. Nail
resumptuous request for a new feature. --Wayne ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: 0.134 and Beyond

2009-09-28 Thread Wayne E. Nail
On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:11 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:45:50 am walt wrote: > > The 'infrastructure' I keep referring to has to do only with the > > GUI interface of pan. The critical parts that you (Charles) have > > spent so much effort in optimizing for speed and mem

Re: [Pan-users] 0.134 and Beyond

2009-09-28 Thread Wayne E. Nail
especially when downloading headers from multimillion-header newsgroups. Pan is the best newsreader I've ever used period, counting even Newsbin Pro and NewsLeecher on WinOS, let alone Agent. I did like Gravity but that was Early Paleolithic. --Wayne ___

[Pan-users] Re: fatal flaw

2008-01-02 Thread wayne
I am very sad because I have enjoyed using pan for many many years. -- Wayne. Beso replied: > it should post an .error file in the directory where it would decode the > file if it encounters an error while decoding the file. in old releases some > files would always stay in the queue an

[Pan-users] fatal flaw

2008-01-01 Thread wayne
ually delete it. Now, the tasks are removed, so not only do I not know that it has not been downloaded, but I cannot re-queue it even if I knew it failed to download. Is there any way of having pan not delete failed tasks automatically? Thanks, --

[Pan-users] Re: attachments

2005-08-07 Thread wayne
rs. The method I use to determine if there is a binary attachment is to examine "lines". If it's over 1,000, then more than likely there is an attachment. I have, on occasion, seen messages with 10 lines that have an attachment however. BTW, what does "lines" actually mean? Thanks, -- Wayne. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] attachments

2005-07-25 Thread wayne
posts with attachments don't always appear when I have filtering set to only display messages with attachments. This is especially true if the message title starts with "Re:". I click off "Match Only Complete Attachments" and then they show up. I guess pan doesn't

[Pan-users] pan crash

2005-04-27 Thread wayne
up to get pan to work again. -- Wayne. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users