Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

[Duncan]

Graham Lawrence posted on Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:08:12 -0800 as excerpted:

> In fact the effect of the \s is that Pan does nothing at all.  Which
> might make you ask... then what was all that business about Pan in
> perpetual download mode?  The full truth is probably unrecoverable, but
> contains at least the following elements:-
> Quoting, in all its infinite varieties, and with shells within shells,
> confuse me.  Like that old limerick, I'm never quite sure "who does
> what, and with which, and to whom";
> Early in this struggle, I checked that the nzb itself was good by
> starting it in Pan in gui mode and, seeing the files appearing in
> Thunar's window, closed Pan, blissfully unaware that its Task Manager
> still lurked in the shadows, loaded for Goodfellas;
> I removed the downloaded files and ran that infamous pan command line,
> replete with superfluous \s &s and if;
> The command did one thing right, it started Pan and its Task Manager
> pounced.

LOL!  I don't know about your end, but your description of it was 
certainly worth the trouble of all that explanation from my end. =:^)

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