[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Stephen Fekete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on > Sat, 09 Jun > 2007 11:48:54 +0100: > >> Firstly only recently tried Pan and am very impressed. Thanks to all >> involved. > > =8^) > >> 2 questions: >> >> 1. .pan 2 folder is located at C:\Documents and Settings\User\.pan2 >> while I have Pan on a different partition (D). How do I change the >> location of the .pan2 folder so it is also on the D partition. > > No problem! Set the environmental variable PAN_HOME to the directory > you wish to keep your config and data in, and pan will look there for > it. =8^) (If you need to know how to set an environmental variable, > ask Travis or one of the others, as I jumped off of MS when it became > apparent where they were headed with what they called XP, > upgrading from > W98 to Linux instead of what I term eXPrivacy. I'm glad they > pushed me, > as it was a move I've not regretted in the least! =8^)
Don't ask me. I don't even know what an "environmental variable" is. I just put Pan in "Program Files" in Vista and did the same on my old XP machine. >> 2. I've set the download folder and I want simply to double click an >> item and have it download to this folder not have the 'Pan:Save >> Articles' dialog pop up. > > This feature was available in old-pan (0.14.x), but isn't in > the rewrite > (0.90 and above). Various users have requested it, and I > think there's > an open bug on it. > > Meanwhile, I use a workaround. Instead of saving one thing > at a time, I > select a whole bunch of stuff, and /then/ hit save. That > way, I only get > one dialog for the bunch, instead of one for each item. That actually > works as good for me as the old way anyway, since I group > stuff together > and save it to a subdir of the working dir, then grab another group > selection and save it to another subdir, keeping series of files > (artists, albums, picture series, whatever) sorted > separately, each into > its own subdir. Keeps the download dir from getting too much > stuff all > dumped together that way, while still avoiding the popup for > each item > problem. =8^) I do the same. -- Travis in Shoreline Washington _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
