[gentoo-amd64] Re: new clean rebuild

[Duncan]

Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> posted
d257c3560805181401j68c2acdfu869cbe9066872721@××××××××××.com, excerpted
below, on  Sun, 18 May 2008 21:01:47 +0000:

> have you ever tried to download multiple lines articles that don't have
> an article?! in these cases klibido does what it should do: saves the
> ammount of data and then you could be able to repair it later via par2
> blocks. pan instead blocks the download at 99% and there isn't any
> single way to have the part downloaded that far saved. this is an
> enormous flaw in pan's binary management that i cannot ignore.

Well, I did mention something about knowing some pan tricks. =8^)

First, I use a binary client a bit differently than some.  I download 
everything to cache first, then work with it from there.  With pan, that 
means enlarging its cache.  As with many GNOME type apps (tho pan is 
certainly better than many in this regard, probably the reason I still 
use it while long ago giving up on GNOME in general), pan doesn't want to 
complicate the GUI with complex config options, so cache size is only 
adjustable by editing the config files (in this case preferences.xml) 
directly.  It's 10 MB by default, large enough to download and save but 
not large enough to download to cache as I do.  I use ~12 gigs for my 
binary instance.  (Using the PAN_HOME environmental flag and symlinks to 
files in common, it's possible to run multiple instances with separate 
configs, I run binary, text, test...)  Anyway, working from cache gives 
me the ability to sort and save to final location while I still know the 
article title, poster, etc, thus the ability to use this in how and where 
I save the file.  It may also help with saving incomplete binaries... I'm 
not sure on that but know I can.

Second, use the Articles, Read article option to manually force pan to 
display what it has when it can't get the rest.  Since I'm working from 
cache, having fetched everything I could previously, I know when this 
occurs so it's easier to do.

Third, when saving, if it won't save as binary or screws it up, I save as 
text, then use uudeview to decode and save from the text files.  I do use 
a temp working area in this case to build the final files to save off.

I'm headed to work so will answer the other afterward.

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