Phillip Pi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 18:45:50 -0700:
> I believe old Pan and tin use the same method because when I clear posts > that I read, I do not see the old posts. I do not use multiple news > servers, only giganews.com. > > It would be nice if we can tell newer Pan which method to use. Here's > the thing. I use tin for text reading. Pan for binary stuff. :) That's > why I use both for one .newsrc file. Since you are using only a single server, the newsrcs should be entirely compatible. The new-pan version should be in its data dir as newsrc-1, so just symlink that to your common location and it should be fine. (Of course, it's always a good idea to have a backup copy when testing such things in case something blows up.) -- 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
