[Pan-users] Re: Getting "all headers"

[Chris]

I assume the lack of response means this isn't possible.  Either that
or you're tired of people asking the same thing (I tried to do due
diligence with searching but didn't find anything).

Would it be possible to push the headers from another program?  In
other words update the file(s) in .pan2/groups/xxxx with new headers
grabbed using software that can do what I want?   I'm talking about
something I would write that could do this.

I assume all I need is the format of the group files which seems to be
explained within the file itself.  Is this information accurate?

Would there be any other files that need to be updated?

Thanks

CR


On 3/27/07, Chris <address@hidden> wrote:
> For me groups that have more than 4 or 5 million articles take a few
> days to download all the headers.  I need to break up the retrieval
> over several days due to bandwidth limitations.   From what I can tell
> it's not possible to stop a "get all headers" and then restart it
> without starting over from the beginning.  I know it's possible to
> pause the task and restart it but I'm talking about completely
> restarting the task.
>
> Generally speaking I want all the active headers in a particular
> group.   What I really want is for Pan to call GROUPLIST (or whatever
> it is) to get all the valid article numbers.  Then check that list
> against the headers currently in the database, then fill in the gaps.
> This is basically a "sync" from my current state to the group's state.
>
> The article expiration should work the same way.  Any headers that are
> no longer valid should be removed from the database.
>
> Can Pan already do this?
>
> Thanks
>
> CR