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

2021-03-12 Thread John Wendel
Hi all I certainly don't think that yEnc is a piracy conspiracy. Most of the pirate files I've encountered are encrypted binary files that require a password to decrypt. Since I don't have the password, I can't tell the actual file format. They have long filenames of random letters, but are

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

2021-03-12 Thread RickBrown
pan runs on my Fedora 32 spin. Interesting that yEnc may be thought of somekinda piracy conspiracy. I'll change my question to the list "Have 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

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] yEnc.msg files and formats

2021-03-11 Thread Sarah Taylor
My ISP lists that newsgroup but when I try to use it no contents are available. Have you downloaded an yenc decoder yet? I downloaded a windows one called yEnc32. I haven't found a newsgroup that had any yenc files in it, at least using Pan newsreader. I kinda recall from years ago I would downl

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

2021-03-09 Thread RickBrown
Hiya all: I fancy I can decode the yEnc. The question is; once decoded, what do I have? Thanks -Rick On 03/09/21 18:08, Sarah Taylor wrote: There seem to be several choices for a yenc decoder in various Linux distros. Have you searched for a yenc decoder? It's been a long time since I use

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

2021-03-09 Thread Sarah Taylor
There seem to be several choices for a yenc decoder in various Linux distros. Have you searched for a yenc decoder? It's been a long time since I used one, but as I recall the process wasn't difficult. On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 8:01 PM Rickbrown wrote: > > Greetings: > > When I select a header fi

[Pan-users] yEnc.msg files and formats

2021-03-09 Thread Rickbrown
Greetings: When I select a header file indicating yEnc encoding to download I get a larger "attachment" file and a collection of .msg files. What is in the attachment file is a mystery, but it is some sort of amalgamation of the information in the .msg files. The .msg files contain a header