RE: [Pan-users] Weird binary splitting

[Travis]

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Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2006 18:29
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Subject: [Pan-users] Weird binary splitting

> Hi, all.
> 
> I'm coming across an occasional oddity in 0.119 when saving
> large binary files to disk:  the file gets split into two
> parts.  Instead of getting, e.g.
> 
>    filename.r01         15,000,000
> 
> I end up with
> 
>    filename.r01         14,750,400
>    filename_copy_2.r01     249,600
> 
> If I delete the saved files and resave it again from the
> cached copy, it will consistently split it like the previous
> save.  If I redownload it (instead of the cached copy) it may
> resplit again, or it may save just fine.  Aaargh!
> 
> If I cat the two parts together (since it appears that
> bytewise it's all there), par2repair reports missing data blocks.
> 
> On an unrelated topic, has the rules/filters idea gone?  I
> miss the raw power to (locally) delete large swaths of the
> Usenet population. :)

I download scads of large binaries and am not seeing the problem you
describe.  It could be that your news provider has partial copies of
some of the files on their server.

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Travis in Shoreline Washington