Re: [Pan-users] Downloading incomplete attachments?

[Alberto BARSELLA]

Hi,

On Thu, 29 May 2003 at 09:16:43AM -0700, Alen Williams wrote:

> Just hit CTRL S as usual. I do this ALL the time. Save a bunch of broken
> (incomplete) files, then go to my pay news server and download the exact
> same file, except this time it only downloads the one or two missing
> segments that aren't in the cache saving it as file_copy_2. Then thanks
> to the magic of Parchive, away we go!

Slow down a moment, I'm missing something here....
A "good" attachment is shown as a "green jigsaw puzzle piece" and it
takes one line in the article list window.
A "bad" attachment is just a normal thread you can expand.

To save a good attachment, I just select the line and click "save" => I
get a nice file.
For a "bad" attachment, I always opened up the thread, saved all
articles separately with "save article text" and then used ydecode to
rebuild the thing.

I've tried to save with "save attachment" a "bad" attachment, and I seem
to be getting a truncated file (it's way smaller), so it may be that
pan is already doing what I want.
But I don't understand how you can "fill in" the holes by re-saving the
same attachment from another newsserver.  Is there some special setting
I have to check?  Must I expand the cache? (I use a single newsserver).

Bye,
Alberto
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