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Sent: Sunday, October 01, 2006 13:13
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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.