PAN(1)

💖 PAN(1) — the manual, but make it make sense 💖

okay bestie, listen. this is the man page for pan, from the General Commands Manual section, and i'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am. no cap, it's actually a lot.

✨ NAME ✨

Pan — read and post Usenet articles. that's the whole job. reading. posting. iconic behaviour. 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pan [OPTIONS...]  [headers:GROUP-NAME | news:MESSAGE-ID]

so like, you can just run it, or you can hand it options, or you can hand it a URL-ish thing at the end. it's giving choose your own adventure. 💅

💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Pan is a Usenet newsreader and she is good at both text and binaries. not one, not the other, both. main character energy fr fr.

she supports:

• offline reading
• scoring and killfiles
• yEnc
• NZB
• PGP handling
• multiple servers
• secure connections

that's the whole list, don't @ me. 🔥

🎀 USAGE 🎀

pan is a program that can be run headless in non-GUI mode, which lets you do batch processing of NZB files, downloading headers, and more. yes bestie, no window, just vibes and tasks getting done. 🧚

👑 OPTIONS 👑

💫 General Options 💫

• -h, --help — print usage information and exit. the "help me pls" button. 🫶
• -v, --version — print release version and exit. so you know exactly which Pan you're dealing with.
• --verbose — be verbose. (in non-GUI mode, so heads up on that.) she will talk. a lot. 😭
• --debug — run in debug mode. and listen: use --debug twice for verbose debug. yes, twice. double it. periodt.
• --debug-ssl — run in TLS (aka SSL) debug mode. for when the secure connection is being mysterious. 🔍

🌈 URL Options 🌈

• headers:GROUP-NAME — download new headers for the GROUP-NAME newsgroup. fresh headers, freshly downloaded. ✨
• news:MESSAGE-ID — when specified together with --no-gui, dump the MESSAGE-ID article to standard output. note the combo, bestie, it only does the thing with --no-gui. no solo runs. 💀

🍓 NZB Batch Options 🍓

• --nzb FILE-1 FILE-2 ... — process NZB files in non-GUI mode. give her a whole pile of them, she'll take them all. 🎀
• -o, --output=PATH — path to save attachments listed in the NZB file(s). where the goods go. 📁
• --no-gui — only show console output, not the download queue. strictly text, no window, no queue display.

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• PAN_HOME — user data directory to use. defaults to $HOME/.pan2. she's gotta keep her stuff somewhere. 💅
• SSL_CERT_DIR, SSL_DIR — directories to search for SSL certificates. that's directories, plural, two of them, both named. 🔐

🙈 BUGS 🙈

found a bug? to report a bug, visit: http://pan.rebelbase.com/bugs/

lowkey please do report it, bestie, that's literally what the link is for 💖

and that's the whole page!! 🎉 this was PAN(1) from the General Commands Manual, sourced from the good people at http://pan.rebelbase.com/ — go say hi, tell them the manual ate and left no crumbs. mwah. 💜✨🎀