I just downloaded pimppa and had a look at the docs. It sounds very interesting, but there's still a question about the behaviour:
In some newsgroups, there are many binaries split into several postings (mostly large binaries like mpeg or avi, but more often jpgs). How does pimppa handle these splitted files?
Stefan
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If all the parts are on the server when pimppa
leeches the group contents, the files
are processed just ok. Unfortunately, if
some part is missing, the file will be
discarded. I have thought about some kind
of "pool" for keeping incomplete postings
in until they become complete or a timeout
happens, but the news server I'm able to use
never gets the parts if it missed them in the
first place.
If I had access to several servers I could
code a functionality to be able to look for
the missing parts from different servers,
but as I'm restricted to one, I don't bother. :(
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Ahh... I was mistaken, it wasn't in the documentation that I read about multipart binaries. Anyway, I have tried leeching some binaries out of a group that I know for a fact has a complete set of parts for something. However, pimppa doesn't end up with any files... when I look at the suckdl.log, all I see is " P: SKIP []" after every file... any ideas on why it might be doing this? I thought I might have to mess with some assign patterns but when I looked at the source, I realized that it doesn't even use the patterns when it is leeching.
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The problem is that pimppa does not recognize valid filenames from the subject line. Probably you have NOT edited "pimppa.h" to suit your needs and recompiled like it says in the install instructions. Unfortunately the RPM distribution is not configurable until the next version.
On 0.5.1, you might try to use "-l" when you download with pleech. Its inefficient but should work.
- Igor
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I just downloaded pimppa and had a look at the docs. It sounds very interesting, but there's still a question about the behaviour:
In some newsgroups, there are many binaries split into several postings (mostly large binaries like mpeg or avi, but more often jpgs). How does pimppa handle these splitted files?
Stefan
If all the parts are on the server when pimppa
leeches the group contents, the files
are processed just ok. Unfortunately, if
some part is missing, the file will be
discarded. I have thought about some kind
of "pool" for keeping incomplete postings
in until they become complete or a timeout
happens, but the news server I'm able to use
never gets the parts if it missed them in the
first place.
If I had access to several servers I could
code a functionality to be able to look for
the missing parts from different servers,
but as I'm restricted to one, I don't bother. :(
Ahh... I was mistaken, it wasn't in the documentation that I read about multipart binaries. Anyway, I have tried leeching some binaries out of a group that I know for a fact has a complete set of parts for something. However, pimppa doesn't end up with any files... when I look at the suckdl.log, all I see is " P: SKIP []" after every file... any ideas on why it might be doing this? I thought I might have to mess with some assign patterns but when I looked at the source, I realized that it doesn't even use the patterns when it is leeching.
The problem is that pimppa does not recognize valid filenames from the subject line. Probably you have NOT edited "pimppa.h" to suit your needs and recompiled like it says in the install instructions. Unfortunately the RPM distribution is not configurable until the next version.
On 0.5.1, you might try to use "-l" when you download with pleech. Its inefficient but should work.
- Igor