Re: [Pan-users] Can't PAN downloading a huge group of large Unuseable Windows EXE archives

[Ron Johnson]

On 10/02/2011 09:04 PM, address@hidden wrote:
> I selected a group of "possibly" RAR exe archives in a usenet group.
> ARK says they are ALL Window$/DO$ executable archives. Ubuntu says they

Why would you want to do that?  Anyway, those are usually virus-laden.

> are archives but can't open a single one of them (Ubuntu 11.04 64 Bit
> for the record)all I want to do is stop the download. I've actally
> uninstalled PAN and rebooted the system and reinstalled. When I restart
> PAN it resumes downloading. The only thing I can do so far is go into
> the File Menu and tell to work off-line which makes the program useless.
> If I tell it to go back on line it resumes downloading. Telling it to
> Cancel Last Task is a complete waste of time.

In the lower left of the window is a box that shows the number of tasks 
left to complete.  Click in it.

> Basically all I need to know is how do I stop downloading short of permanently 
> deleting PAN?
>
> It's the only USENET program I've seen that actually works for me.
>
> All/All help would be much appreciated.


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