On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:16:57 -0500, Roger T. Imai wrote: > 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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