Re: [Pan-users] Bug in 0.12

[Wolf J . Flywheel]

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On Thursday 27 June 2002 23:50, Steven Ellis wrote:

> Just browsing alt.binaries.multimedia.scifi and tried
> to read some replies to an article from "LabMonkey",
> subject "Re: Earth2 1x01 VCD - Earth...." and a
> subsequent reply to that message. Both of these
> messages force the save as dialog to open, but I can't
> simply read the article text..

        I have seen this happen from time to time, but never really 
investigated it.  I'd suggest doing some things to narrow it down:

        Restart Pan and try again; see if it still happens.
        Check the raw article with another newsreader and see how it's 
formatted.  Since Pan does not download complete articles when 
displaying headers, I assume it has to guess at whether the article has 
attachments, *UNLESS* there's a header that tells whether attachments 
are present, that is sent standard (not using XOVER or whatever we must 
use for getting extended headers; I really don't know much about NNTP 
protocols).  Therefore, "Re: blah blah (01/56) file.avi" might seem 
like a binary posting even if it's not, thus prompting the "Save As" 
dialog, as I've seen happen.

        If you can find a consistent way to force this to happen, report it as 
a bug and it will soon be fixed.  :)  The Pan team fixes everything 
from confusing or overly large dialogs to unreadable message headers, 
eventually!
        The next time this bothers me sufficiently, I will try to gather 
enough information to report it, as well, but so far it has not 
happened enough for me to figure out exactly when it happens so that I 
can submit a useful report.  :/

Good luck,

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