Re: [Pan-users] fatal flaw

[Beso]

it should post an .error file in the directory where it would decode the file if it encounters an error while decoding the file. in old releases some files would always stay in the queue and not be decoded if there should happen an error of this kind and i found it annoying since a file could not be decoded for the reason of a single article gone mad and if this should have happened with multiple files not having these files decoded would increase the number of par2 blocks to be able to repair the file (when they were posted). so i find the new system better than the old one: when encountering article errors pan goes on and when finishes it decodes the file and if it encounters errors it puts another file with the extension .errors and with the same name as the corrupted file. so if you happen to see an errors file then read it and eventually retry the file later.

2008/1/1, wayne <address@hidden>:

In my recent upgrade from redhat 9 to fedora 8, I upgraded pan (0.14.2) to
pan2 (Pan 0.132).  I found about a dozen defects from the previous version
that I have been documenting.  None of them were too severe, but now I found
one that is totally unacceptable to me.

When pan is unable to download a file because it is not found on the server,
it is removed from the task list.  I have a flaky news server that sometimes
doesn't know about its own articles on some posts.  If I try again
later, the
articles will appear.  With the old pan, it would remain in the task list
until I manually delete it.  Now, the tasks are removed, so not only do I
not know that it has not been downloaded, but I cannot re-queue it even if I
knew it failed to download.

Is there any way of having pan not delete failed tasks automatically?

Thanks,

-- Wayne.



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