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On Wed, 24 Aug 2011 06:39:45 +0000 (UTC) |
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Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@×××.net> wrote: |
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> pan actually has more people working on it now than it has in a |
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> very long time, at least since I've been around, perhaps ever! =:^) |
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Pan is another wonder of the open source world. There is literally |
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nothing else in its class. It's good to know that development is |
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alive. |
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Pan cannot upload binary files and that is another reason I have |
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to keep thunderbird in reserve. |
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> I'm not much into |
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> torrenting and when I do torrent, ktorrent has been my client of choice, |
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For torrents, IMO, one cannot beat aria2: http://aria2.sf.net |
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It is a command line program. Just open a terminal, enter a few |
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quick commands, and let it do its work. It provides complete |
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status information continuously, and, within its domain, is on |
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par with any graphical program. |
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It's not that I have some extreme irrational bias against graphical |
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software, but, in the right hands, console based programs can still |
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perform wonderful things in terms of basic output. Ncurses and s-lang |
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are very capable development tools. But for some reason these things |
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are not appreciated by the average user who, if given a choice, will |
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usually gravitate to a graphical solution. |
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Frank Peters |
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