Re: [Pan-users] PAR File Support ??

[Ron Johnson]

On 06/01/2011 05:34 PM, Lacrocivious Acrophosist wrote:
> Michael, W1RC<address@hidden>  writes:
>
> > I am a new PAN user but not unfamiliar with Usenet and
> > downloading binaries.  I think Pan is an outstanding app and am
> > looking forward to totally migrating from my present news reader in the
> > near future.
> > I would very much appreciate knowing if Pan has native support for PAR
> > files or does an add-on need to be installed.  If this is the case
> > what are the addons required for both Windows and Linux
> > versions?
> > Thanks for all your efforts.
> > Regards,
> > Michael
>
> Two GUI tools not yet mentioned are GPar2 (
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/parchive/files/ ) and, especially for those
> accustomed to the QuickPAR interface, Easy Par2 for KDE (
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/ekpar2/ ). Both work well on most systems. I
> have come to prefer, by far, the more informative ekpar2.
>
> Depending upon your specific distro and configuration, pypar2 may run only once
> thereafter segfault; this happens on five systems here in the shop.
>
> I am unconvinced that par2 handling should ever be part of Pan internally. Make
> a tool, make it do a thing and do it well. Make the Swiss Army Knife the
> exception, not the rule ;-)

Zawinski's Law: “Every program attempts to expand until it can read
    mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones
    which can.” Coined by Jamie Zawinski (who called it the “Law of
    Software Envelopment”) to express his belief that all truly useful
    programs experience pressure to evolve into toolkits and
    application platforms (the mailer thing, he says, is just a side
    effect of that). It is commonly cited, though with widely varying
    degrees of accuracy.

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