Duncan:
Thank you so much for your well-considered help. It's great to see that
the high quality of communications survives in private mailing lists,
when it's gone down the toilet on Usenet discussion forums.
As I had already saved all my attachments to
-/rtimai/Documents/Downloads I didn't hesitate to delete the contents of
the .pan2 folder, and as you predicted, I was able to start Pan normally
from the Applications menu! I recreated my newsgroup subscriptions
within minutes. Thanks again SO MUCH!
I remember providing support for Windows users who'd never seen the DOS
command line, or knew what directories were, or even how to use Windows
Explorer, and now I feel like them, bewildered by all these
cryptic-looking folder names, and not knowing their purpose. In Windows
up through XP, I knew what every single folder was for.
One of my reasons for using Pan in the first place was to borrow
Ubuntu/Debian/Linux manuals from alt.binaries.ebooks.technical. There
were a couple that discussed the philosophical differences between *nix
and Windows, which I think will be a boon to my learning Linux. I am a
confirmed Linux convert, and have no intention of ever going back to
commercial software, which is becoming more and more bloated with
user-accountability features (not to mention security concerns.)
OpenOffice.org, which I switched to while still running Windows (and now
replaced by the Linux version) does everything that I need to do in
Office 2007 at work.
Thanks so much for your help again. You'll see me on the Linux forums
eventually, I'm sure.
Oh yes, the Ubuntu repository doesn't list higher than Pan 0.120 (Plate
of Shrimp,) where do they get these names from, anyway. When I figure
out how to upgrade to 0.130 I'll do it.
Roger
Antioch TN
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