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

[Keith Richie]

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Ron Johnson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 ;-)

Agreed! There are already a couple of great NZB leechers, if that's
what your after.


>>
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I use this simple shell script, and associate par2 files with it.

#!/bin/sh
xterm -hold -e par2repair "$1"

You would need par2cmdline