2008/6/26 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Ufuk YILDIRIM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted > below, on Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:23:49 +0300: > >> 1. Unable to save "H:\.pan2\groups\uk.rec.humour" Arg list too long Dont >> know what exactly it is. It might be related to what I did earlier after >> moving to new loacation: I wanted to download all the articles in the >> said group. However, along the way, pan did stop downloading the >> articles. I closed the pan, when there were still tasks (not downloading >> for some reason). Whenever I run pan, it takes sometime compared to >> before (though not that long). > > First, please set gmail to not post HTML when posting to this list, and > preferably to any similar list. There's a reason pan doesn't handle > HTML, many consider it a security issue, and raw HTML just looks ugly. > That said, you're not the first and won't be the last to do it; many > don't even realize they are. > Sorry about that. I am having strange problem using my email client to send messages to this list. As a result, I posted my message via web browser, which I very rarely use. Hence I did not notice whether gmail posts messages in HTML or plain text.
> Back on topic... That error is likely an old and now probably stuck > task. You should see a tasks.nzb file, pan's method of storing its tasks > to disk and a standard *.nzb format file, in the new location. You > should be able to edit it to point to the new location as appropriate. At the moment, the tasks.nzb file is too small and it contains a line or two, and that particular error disappeared [fingers-crossed]. > Thanks for mentioning these. They'll certainly help the next time > something like this comes up as I didn't have any unfinished tasks when I > switched directories so didn't see this one. As for the server file, > when I moved directories it was to split pan into multiple instances, > binary, text, and test. Thus, I either manually edited that due to the > split or setup servers from scratch for each instance, so didn't see a > problem there either. Now that I'm aware of them I can warn people about > them the next time this comes up. =8^) > >> 2. Error setting spellchecker: aspell: No word lists can be found for >> the language "en_US". Have no idea about this. > > IIRC that's set using the LANG environmental variable, but en_US is the > likely default if it's unset. Did you have spell-check working before? I have been using pan for sometime now, but never encountered this error before. Or even if I encountered the error I did not notice or can't remember. I would prefer UK spelling but not really too bothered about spelling option right now. Will look for a solution for this later when I have more time. > You mentioned uk.*, do you prefer en_GB (or whatever it is) for spelling > or en_US, or ??? If you haven't, you'll need to install the correct > dictionary. I assume the dictionary is the same regardless of MS or *ix > platform, but wasn't aware until now that the MS platforms port even had > the option ported. > > Travis is one of the regulars here that runs pan on MSWindows. It's > likely he can better answer some of these questions, and there are a few > others as well, that don't seem to reply as often as he does. > > -- > 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 Thanks again for the reply. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
