Recent changes to feature-requests

Would like to list files w/o verification

Aaron D. Marasco — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:45:21 -0000

I would like a function added to par2cmdline to simply list the files covered by a PAR2 file. Similar to the verification list, but without the verification; simply parse the PAR2 file and show what files it WOULD check/recover. This would provide the ability for script writers (perl, python, ruby, etc) a quick way to see what is there without having to write a native block parser in their language.

UNC path support

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 12:22:48 -0000

Please add support for both
1) UNC paths for the par files
2) UNC paths for the data files

Example:
par2create -b128 -r10 \\server\folder\folder\xyz.par2 \\anotherserver\folder\folder\xyz.mpg

UNC path support

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:23:46 -0000

Please add support for both
1) UNC paths for the par files
2) UNC paths for the data files

Example:
par2create -b128 -r10 \\server\folder\folder\xyz.par2 \\anotherserver\folder\folder\xyz.mpg

gpar2: Monitor for more files and auto-repair

Joe Emenaker — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 02:40:45 -0000

QuickPar for Windows really has it nailed. By default, you can set it to:
1 - Monitor for new parts of the par-set
2 - Display how many more blocks are still needed.
3 - Automatically repair (if necessary) as soon as enough blocks show up.
4 - Remove all of the PAR's after the repair.

The upshot of all of this is that, when downloading a set of files, you can download the par file first, run QuickPar on it (with "monitor" and "auto-repair" on), queue up all of the other files and pars for download... and then go have dinner. When you return, you'll be greeted with a pristine set of files... all repaired automatically.

It would be *really* nice if gpar2 had this capability. At the very least, it would be nice if there was a "check again" button to have it scan for newly-arrived parts of the par-set... but it would be nicest of all to have it all automatic.

multithreading

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:43:52 -0000

It would be cool if multithreading is supported

throw away par/par2 after verify/repair

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 16:38:22 -0000

Automatic throw away par/par2 files if verify or repair is succesfull ( can be changed on option menu )

Greets

Add -log '' cmdline option

sirjaymz — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 18:05:14 -0000

Add an option to create a log file, and/or append it
if it already exists at the command line by specifying
something like par2 c -r20 -l -v -log'<path and
filename>' "par2file.par2" "par2fileinputs.r??"

Allow reading input filenames from stdin

Wesley J. Landaker — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:32:44 -0000

I'm forwarded this from the Debian BTS:

<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355969>

Basically, par can operate over lots of files, but
the number is limited either by the command line, or
by what can be described with wildcards.

One good way to get around this limitation is to have
an option for par2cmdline to read the list of
filenames from stdin instead of from the command
line, then someone could do e.g.:

$ find . <complecated expression> |
par <stdin filename option>

Please take a look at the URL to the Debian BTS to
see more information from the original reporter. =)

Thanks!

recover as many files as possible ,

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 15:48:39 -0000

in the event that a complete set of par files cannot be
had.
could it be possible to recover as many files as possible
flagging those not recoverable.
at least some data would then be recovered.
especially with music or video where the resultant file
can be manually edited to remove corrupted sections.

on free news servers few if any posts are complete and
some are missing more parts than the supplied par files
can recover.

Open only one instance of Quickpar

Anonymous — Sun, 08 Jan 2006 11:26:57 -0000

Open only one instance of QuickPar than open "n"
QuickPar program in the same time.

If user selection "n" .par file, then click "open",
QuickPar treat selectionned files one after one.

Xavier