Re: [Pan-users] Re: Some feedback on Pan/0.14.90

[David Kelly]

On Mar 13, 2005, at 6:04 PM, address@hidden wrote:

> I got this in the mail today and would like to ask for user 
> suggestions:
>
> > with incomplete binaries theres no way to tell which parts are needed
> > to ask for them, you are hiding necessary information here, this is 
> > not a
> > minor thing, but a reduction in utility
>
> I agree that we've lost some utility, but giving each part back its 
> own line
> in the header pane will cost a lot of the speed and memory wins that 
> Pan's
> just gained.  So there needs to be another method of giving this info.
> Maybe a right-click-menu button to pull up an info dialog, or a tooltip
> in the header pane, or ... ?
>
> Opinions anyone?

Have not yet been able to build the CVS version, but this is something 
needed even in the tar.gz version. That on occasion Pan thinks it has 
all the headers to complete a file but on download can not get one and 
aborts the entire bundle.

Have found I can retry the article and sometimes takes 5 tries before 
the news server coughs up the problem part. Sometimes it never 
delivers.

If Pan knows in advance the article was incomplete then it presses on 
and produces a file for par to repair.

While I'm at it, the command line tool ydecode complains about 
everything I've downloaded with Pan as being one byte short. Not sure 
where that problem lies.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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