RE: [Pan-users] Re: Mutlipart posts?

[Travis]

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Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Multipart posts?

> Duncan wrote:
>> fred <address@hidden> posted
>> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 30 Sep 2006
>> 11:36:34 -0500: 
>> 
>> 
>>> With all the memory improvements lately (thanks Charles really
>>> helped me a lot) I was wondering if pan could carry it to the
>>> screen. When you have multipart post like partX.rar could pan
stack
>>> them so 
>  all one
>>> would see is one entry. This is assuming that they are already
being
>>> stored as something like varible+varitation.rar. You could view
what
>>> part is missing essentially by hitting a icon of some sort. This
>>> would clean up the header subject area and make it easier to find
>>> stuff. Depending on how it was done I would assume it could speed
up
>>> sorting time as well. Just a thought.
>>> 
>> 
>> pan actually already does that for multi-parts.  That is, when a
>> single file is spread over multiple posts, pan combines it into a
>> single header (unless it detects it incorrectly for some reason).
>> With the changes a couple releases ago (so with 0.113 or so, don't
>> remember exactly and don't care sufficiently to go look it up),
these
>> will show up with a /3 or /5 or /10 or whatever, indicating that
many
>> actual posts combined to make the single multi-part post,
> generally with only a single attached file.
>> 
>> To see what I mean, try saving a single rar entry as shown in pan,
>> but save BOTH the attachment and the text.  It's very likely that
>> you'll have only one attachment, but have the generally 5-10 actual
>> text articles shown in the /X in the subject -- the actual posts
that
>> combined to make the single attachment, that pan displayed as only
a
>> single entry. 
>> 
>> However, with rar in particular, but also some other file types,
it's
>> not uncommon to split a huge file into multiple smaller files at
the
>> posting end, /before/ posting them.  Each of those smaller files is
>> /still/ likely split over multiple posts, and pan combines the
posts
>> for each file, but does NOT combine the posts for multiple files,
be
>> they RAR or other file type.  From my perspective, I think that's
>> best, as adding yet another layer of combination makes it just that
>> much easier for pan to mis-parse something and have the entire
>> series screwed up. 
>> 
>> 
> Duncan
> 
> I was clear on what was going on. I just disagree with your
> conclusion. 
> 
> Lazlow

There is no need to see what part is missing, just let PAR tell you
how many blocks are needed for a repair.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington