[Pan-users] Re: Command line use

[Duncan]

Ted Sudtell <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Tue, 12 Jun
2007 10:25:40 -0700:

> I would like to use Pan from cron,  I have a satellite connection with a
> download limit 21 hrs a day.  12pm to 3am is open for unlimited
> download. I did a lookup in the archives and saw a few messages back in
> 2002. Does anyone know if this can be done?

Frequently requested feature, but AFAIK, still a work in progress.  I 
haven't actually checked recently, but last I knew, you had to download 
headers manually.  You can then set pan offline and queue up a bunch of 
downloads, then quit pan.  Then restarting pan will fetch the queued 
downloads.  (I think it starts back up in online mode, that is, it 
doesn't store offline mode status, but I'm not positive and obviously, am 
not going to try it right now to verify.  =8^)  Note that pan does take 
NZB files on the command line, and actually stores its queue as an NZB 
file.  So you can use that method for exporting NZBs as well, and import 
them via command line if you have an NZB source.

Eventually, slated for after the 1.0 stable release which is coming up, 
pan will get the ability to autodownload headers, probably as part of the 
scoring options (so you may have to create a score to give everything you 
want to download a positive or watched score, but that's doable, once the 
autodownload code is there at all), but it doesn't have it yet.

One option you can use as a workaround would be to setup a proper local 
newsserver, such as leafnode, and have it do your autodownloading.  Then 
simply connect pan to it.

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