Re: [Pan-users] Re: Question about Multi-Part Post Detection (BNR2-like feature)

[Robert Krig]

Hi again, just had another idea for a feature which could go hand in 
hand with Multi-Part Post detection.

Have you heard of hellanzb?

Its not really a newsreader, since it only processes nzb files. But it 
has a nifty little feature. When it finishes downloading all the posts 
from a nzb file. It then does a automatic PAR verify and repair on the 
downloaded directory. Once it has made sure that all the rars are intact 
and available, it then unrars them. As a last step, it deletes all the 
PAR2 and RAR files and leaves you only with the actual file which was in 
the rars.

If PAN was able to know which files belong together, it could call the 
par2repair tool to process the PAR2 files and then afterwards unrar the 
files, if the user would choose to do so.

On the other hand, a much simpler way, would perhaps be the option to 
let the user specify a command which is to be executed once all 
downloads in the queue have been downloaded.

That way the user could specify their own script and do all sorts of 
customised post-processing with the files.

I mean in the end, even nzb only executes pre-existing tools with 
certain parameters.

The whole PAR2 and RAR processing thing is handled externally anwyway. 
Would just be nice if you could for example, select a bunch of posts for 
download before you go to bed, and have them all ready and processed 
when you wake up in the morning.

Anyways, just an idea.