[CLUE-Tech] problem with pan 0.9.6

[Mark Horning]

Jed S. Baer wrote:

>On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 18:36:18 -0600
>don <dlj1148 at attbi.com> wrote:
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>>On Thursday 03 October 2002 06:12 pm, you wrote:
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>>>On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 17:48:26 -0600
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>>>don <dlj1148 at attbi.com> wrote:
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>>>>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,
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>>>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
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>>the news group is alt.binaries.sounds.mp3
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>>this is happening on any mp3 i try and download and save.
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>>I am using mandrake 8.0
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>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>jed
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I'm running pan-0.13.0-2mdk on Mandrake 9 and it has been pretty solid. 
Decodes yenc
encoded files no problem. I found that a lot of the pan versions through 
the beta (cooker)
releases were ..... well, somewhat flawed :-) I'd upgrade to this 
version if the dependencies
don't stop you. But I've had various problems of this sort and blowing 
away ~/.pan seemed
to help.

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Mark Horning
rip6 at rip6.net