Jeff Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:07:16 -0700:
> Brad, I guess a work around might be to write a small > front end launcher for pan that merely swaps out > various .pan2 directories for the one containing the > groups you want to work with. That's the traditional Unix(R) approach. Make each little tool scriptable (like PAN is a bit now with command line options), and able to do its job well, and have a powerful scripting language/system with pipes, redirection, stdin/stdout/errout, etc, that a user can use to glue everything together in a customized fashion that "just works" the way they want it to. I've done that sort of thing for years, back on MSWormOS using batch files (heh, prompting for input a character at a time =8^) and later WinBatch (from WilsonWindowWare) and finally MSVB, and now on Linux with bash, or if one get's fancy, with (gtk|k|x)?dialog and/or python/perl/whatever. I was just going to suggest it, then saw you already had. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
