Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: CLI operation

[Ron Johnson]

On 03/28/2011 06:49 PM, Duncan wrote:
> Ron Johnson posted on Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:49:53 -0500 as excerpted:
>
> > The GUI interface is great, but not so optimized for downloading the
> > headers of big groups.
> >
> > So, I request a separate program pan-get-headers (which is part of the
> > pan2 source tree and thus gets built when you run "make") that uses the
> > already-existing pan nntp functions.
> >
> > It would work something like:
> > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --all
> > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --new
> > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --days=nn
> > $ pan-get-headers --group=alt.really.big --latest=nn
>
> While I haven't looked at it in awhile nor really ever used it myself, pan
> already has a "gui-less" CLI interface, that specifically /does/ have
> header-fetch functionality.  Try running pan --help in a terminal window
> and see if it has what you're looking for.

Interesting.  Thanks.

> A quick-look says it fetches new headers (no options for the others).
> Good for a continuing cronjob or the like, to keep up with a group so when
> running pan normally it's already up2date, but not so much for
> initializing a big group.

I'm trying it now.  Will see how long it takes to crash...

$ date && pan --no-gui headers:alt.binaries.dvd ; date
Mon Mar 28 20:12:05 CDT 2011


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