Re: [Pan-users] I did more testing; using another news-reader those files fetched fine.

[Wayne E. Nail]

On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 07:26 +0000, SciFi wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I got binsearch.info to whip-up a NZB for the sample file pointed to here.
> (Just search on the main Subject filename as shown.  Need to use binsearch's
> "other groups" option for it, too.)
> 
> This NZB looks fine, nothing is goofed-up, and all 6746 parts are listed
> within it.  Meaning this poster is *not* an idiot as someone said here.  ;)
> 
> Using this NZB, my build of Pan got just as crazy if not even crazier.
> 
> Ok now here is what I think is big evidence showing Pan has the bug:
> I used my registered copy of Unison
> <http://www.panic.com/unison/>
> which is expressly designed for OSX, and knows about NZB files.
> I fed the very same NZB file to it,
> using the very same server (GN) and id/pswd etc.,
> and SUCCESSFULLY fetched the entire file just fine.
> 
> I then went on to make more NZBs by using binsearch to browse the a.b.chaka
> newsgroup directly, and all those worked just fine also with Unison.
> 
> But Pan did _not_ behave with those NZBs, still.
> 
> I think Olaf/Rhialto is hitting very close, in that Pan is doing some
> char-subs with what seems to be C-language strings, somehow.
> This ain't kewl.  Not at all.  ;(
> 
> …
> 
> Someone here asked:  What is a .tp file?
> lookie here:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-TS>
> altho the poster captured the digital-TV stream via cable;
> otherwise it's all pretty-much the same thing:
> These days it is the _best_ TV-recording method bar DVDs and Blurays® etc.
> We have a ready-to-post FAQ whenever a UseNet user asks this question.  ;)
> 
> …
> 
> Some people are having trouble with generated NZBs matching their NSP.
> Fortunately I pay for GN's topmost unlimited usage, but I also pay for the
> $11/month unlimited special at Astraweb as well, e.g. please see
> <http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.html>
> (I just checked, it is still there as I post this msg).
> 
> …
> 
> I was kinda hopin K.Haley might've fixed this already in those git trees.
> But I usually follow the main tree that Charles Kerr keeps up.
> I am about ready to do self-upgrades on the whole gnome system here myself
> (I never use a pkg-mgr as they all wipe-out my build-environments etc, so
> you can see how much work this will be for me ;) ).
> Anyway,
> Shall I open a bug-report on this?
> 
> Thank you for helping.
> 

Well, that's me told. ;-)

Might (probably won't) teach me to opine strongly on something that,
just because I personally haven't seen it before, could nevertheless be
a fine thing. Witness .tp format.

SciFi, you and I likely have the same version of Pan from Charles's tree
-- I thought he had called it 1.34 at some point -- but I don't know how
to tell. Where is the version information located in the source?