[CLUE-Tech] problem with pan 0.9.6

[Jed S. Baer]

On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:36:18 -0600
don <dlj1148 at attbi.com> wrote:

> On Thursday 03 October 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:48:26 -0600
> >
> > don <dlj1148 at attbi.com> wrote:
> > > Pan has been working fine. downloading, combining and saving
> > > messages from news groups. yesterday, it stop saving, pan downloads,
> > > does a quick decode, but nothing is saves, if I use open attachment,
....
> > If you could supply the newsgroup name, and a message ID or subject
> > line, that would be helpful. There might be a way to look at your logs
> > too
....
> the news group is alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
> 
> this is happening on any mp3 i try and download and save.
> 
> I am using mandrake 8.0

I don't keep track of Mandrake. What version of gtk+ do you have? Since
Pan 0.11.4 is just a minor bugfix release, if you have gtk+-1.2.10-11 (and
related dependencies) it should work OK (based on 0.11.2 working on my box
with that gtk+). Everything past that one is on the Gnome2 track, and I
haven't even tried to get that all going on my box.

Looking at that group, I see gobs of multipart and Yenc. There are lots of
bugfixes related to multipart in later versions of pan. I know yenc is on
the roadmap, but whether they've got it in the code yet, I don't know. Not
in 0.11, though. FWIW, I can't test in that group, because the multiparts
are all missing pieces, and I don't have the bandwidth to do it anyway.
You might invoke pan using 'pan --debug > pan.log 2>&1' and see what's in
the log file.

Sorry, I can't remember any particulars from the 0.9 release, even though
I was beta-testing from 0.8 through 0.11. The only thing that comes to
mind for big multiparts is to use a very large cache size. Other than
that, I don't know.

jed
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