[Pan-users] Re: Posting an attachment?

[Duncan]

Travis <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sun, 20
Apr 2008 17:30:04 -0700:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick Barry"
> Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2008 3:24 PM

>> Using PAN 0.129 on Ubuntu 7.10
>>
>> I want to post an NZB file for someone in a binary group.
>>
>> Coming from Agent, I would have just made this an attachment. I can't
>> seem to figure out how I would do this in PAN.

> Pan doesn't do "attachments".

Correct -- by itself.  However, it's possible to attach them manually if 
you have a UUEncoder (pan doesn't have the setup to properly do MIME/
Base64 as that requires specific headers, and yEnc attachments won't 
properly paste into the text-only editor).

I've created a bash script called pan-attach to semi-automate the 
process, using pan's external editor feature.  Actually, I've created 
two.  Pan-attach itself, lacking its own UI, was an original proof of 
concept that I hoped someone with proper coding ability would run with, 
but no one did, so I eventually created pan-attach-kd, which makes use of 
the kdialog UI/dialog package to handle the GUI.  pan-attach was 
evidently too rough and hard enough to use that nobody ever commented on 
using it, but I've had several say they use 
pan-attach-kd.

To use pan-attach-kd, you'll need kdialog installed as I mentioned. It's 
part of the kdebase package on distributions that don't split it out into 
its own package. You'll also need uuenview from the uudeview package, to 
do the actual encoding.  (I've had reports that standard uuencode works 
too.)  Just run it from a terminal window to get further information.  
The script is available at my web page, here:

http://members.cox.net/pu61ic.1inux.dunc4n/

I should do an update someday.  I've got a couple patches folks have 
submitted, but it does work, as long as you have bash, kdialog and 
uuenview installed.

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