PAN(1) General Commands Manual PAN(1)

Pan - read and post Usenet articles

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

Pan is a Usenet newsreader that is good at both text and binaries. It supports offline reading, scoring and killfiles, yEnc, NZB, PGP handling, multiple servers, and secure connections.

pan is a program that can be run headless in non-GUI mode, allowing for batch processing of NZB files, downloading headers, and more.

Print usage information and exit.
Print release version and exit.
Be verbose (in non-GUI mode).
Run in debug mode. Use --debug twice for verbose debug.
Run in TLS (aka SSL) debug mode.

Download new headers for the GROUP-NAME newsgroup.
When specified together with --no-gui, dump the MESSAGE-ID article to standard output.

Process NZB files in non-GUI mode.
Path to save attachments listed in the NZB file(s).
Only show console output, not the download queue.

User data directory to use. Defaults to $HOME/.pan2.
Directories to search for SSL certificates.

To report a bug, visit: http://pan.rebelbase.com/bugs/