Anything better than Pan?

mattd2173 · n00b Joined: 09 Feb 2004 Posts: 18 Location: Rock Hill, SC

Is there any program that works better than pan? I mostly do binary groups, so knode and the thunderbird news client are out of the question. Pan seems to get bogged down with large groups such as a.b.dvd, .dvdr, etc. *When* it does work, it takes about 45 minutes to sort/load/update headers. But most of the time I get errors like

superjaded · l33t Joined: 05 Jul 2002 Posts: 802

Odd.

I only have 512mb of ram (no swap) and I've never had a problem with memory in Pan.
I don't really use Pan to download; I prefer looking at headers/posts and do the actual downloading using a commandline regexp leecher called nget. It has built in par1 & 2 support (if your "get scope," so to speak also picks up the PAR files.. it will only download the par files it needs to recover). Pretty nifty program overall.

And for posting, I use newspost.

As far as GUI based usenet clients go, Pan is about as good as it gets.

dabtech · n00b Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 63 Location: Chicago

You could take a look at BNR2 (http://www.bnr2.org). The is a closed source free program that is developed using Kylix and links against an old version of QT, so the interface is not very pretty (no antialiasing, does not pick up QT3 themes). But I find it pretty functional in dealing with binary groups, especially the large ones with a > 1,000,000 headers. The multiserver support is excellent in this app also.

Szplug · Posted: Mon Mar 01, 2004 4:28 pm Post subject: Pan 0.14.2

I don't know if it'll fix your problem but, there is a later pan in portage. I don't know why it isn't the official one, it's all-around better than 0.14.0.