Re: [Pan-users] Re: Mutlipart posts?

[David Kelly]

On Oct 4, 2006, at 7:17 PM, Johan Ovlinger wrote:

> > There is no need to see what part is missing, just let PAR tell you
> > how many blocks are needed for a repair.
>
> Infact, I think there was a suggestion many moons ago to parse par2  
> files and use them to download the correct combination of binaries  
> and restore blocks to re-assemble the file.

Yea, But...

My news service often lists a header for which it lacks a body. This  
caused pan 0.14.x to come to a screeching halt on that particular  
multipart file. Par2 never got a chance because pan wouldn't attempt  
to reassemble the parts.

Now if only a header was missing, pan would make a best-effort  
attempt without that part. And then par2 could have a chance at repair.

What I was asking for was the ability to open the multi-part in order  
to delete the header causing pan problems so that it could continue  
thru to the rest of the multi-part. Could not do this on postings  
which pan found all headers. When the headers were incomplete and pan  
stopped on an existing header which lacked a body I could click the +  
sign to open it up, delete the red-x'ed header, and continue.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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