[Pan-users] Re: fatal flaw

[wayne]

I suppose that would be acceptable for corrupt files, which gives something
like (in a file called pan-saved-file.ERRORS):

Warning: Data looks suspicious. Decoded file might be corrupt.
Warning: Data looks suspicious. Decoded file might be corrupt.
Warning: Missing everything before part #3

But this doesn't tell me which attachment failed.  The problem that
I find unacceptable is that if the file is not found, the error is
logged in the events window with insufficient information and the
tasks are deleted.  I used to love pan, but now I'm going to look
for another news reader.  I am very sad because I have enjoyed
using pan for many many years.

-- Wayne.

Beso replied:
> it should post an .error file in the directory where it would decode the
> file if it encounters an error while decoding the file. in old 
releases some
> files would always stay in the queue and not be decoded if there should
> happen an error of this kind and i found it annoying since a file 
could not
> be decoded for the reason of a single article gone mad and if this should
> have happened with multiple files not having these files decoded would
> increase the number of par2 blocks to be able to repair the file 
(when they
> were posted). so i find the new system better than the old one: when
> encountering article errors pan goes on and when finishes it decodes the
> file and if it encounters errors it puts another file with the extension
> .errors and with the same name as the corrupted file. so if you happen to
> see an errors file then read it and eventually retry the file later.
>
> 2008/1/1, wayne <address@hidden>:
> > >
> > > In my recent upgrade from redhat 9 to fedora 8, I upgraded pan 
(0.14.2) to
> > > pan2 (Pan 0.132).  I found about a dozen defects from the 
previous version
> > > that I have been documenting.  None of them were too severe, but 
now I
> > > found
> > > one that is totally unacceptable to me.
> > >
> > > When pan is unable to download a file because it is not found on the
> > > server,
> > > it is removed from the task list.  I have a flaky news server that
> > > sometimes
> > > doesn't know about its own articles on some posts.  If I try again
> > > later, the
> > > articles will appear.  With the old pan, it would remain in the 
task list
> > > until I manually delete it.  Now, the tasks are removed, so not 
only do I
> > > not know that it has not been downloaded, but I cannot re-queue 
it even if
> > > I
> > > knew it failed to download.
> > >
> > > Is there any way of having pan not delete failed tasks automatically?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > -- Wayne.
> > >