[Pan-users] Flagged Binaries Download Problem

[Kent Jantz]

No, the menu doesn't say "Download *article bodies*" but it does say "Save 
Attachments".  I got it that to work although I wish I had the "Save 
Attachments" options when I download flagged articles, I have to use those 
separately now.  In Xnews(my favorite Newsreader in Windoze) you can "Queue" 
articles, download them to a temporary folder, when your done downloading goto 
that temporary folder "Queue" which articles you want to download( and where 
you want to put them), and your done.  Pan works sort of the same way only 
instead of "Queuing" or "Flagging" articles I have to hold down the Ctrl key to 
select multiple articles which is tenuious because if I have to goto another 
application temporarily then I could lose my selections.  Once I have those 
marked and am ready to "Save Attachments" they all go to the same directory 
when I would like to choose which articles get decoded where.  It's a pity 
Xnews can't run under Wine(something the Xnews programmer acknowledges) but wil
 l run under VMware but I don't want to spend $300 just to run a newsreader.

Kent


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On Friday 02 August 2002 20:59, Kent Jantz wrote:

> I'm using Gentoo 1.3b with Pan 0.12.1.  I can flag binaries and it
> looks like it downloads them but when I goto the download directory
> it's not there.  As it turns out they are cached so how do I get them
> decoded/downloaded to the download directory?

        You don't want to "download" them -- this only stores the article 
bodies 
on disk, but does not decode their contents.  (I'm not using the 
bleeding-edge version, but the menu used to say, "Download *article 
bodies*"... does it still?)
        What you want is to "Save attachments" -- this downloads all necessary 
parts and decodes the file(s) to your specified download directory.

        If those articles are cached on your system, selecting "Save 
attachments" should decode the articles for you.  If not all parts are 
cached, some downloading will still take place.

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