On Wed, 23 Jul 2008 00:57:30 +0000, walt wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:20:15 +0000, Jim Henderson wrote: > >> I just noticed (as a result of a conversation with another NNTP user >> about this) that 0.132 doesn't seem to display the description fields >> returned by the news server when using the "list newsgroups" command. > > Well, pan fetches the descriptions from the news servers and stores them > in ~/.pan2/newsgroups.dsc -- and then ignores that file completely. > > I can only surmise that Charles intend[s,ed] to do something with that > file sometime in the future, but only Charles knows for certain :o/
Cool, good to know that that information is pulled. Might not be difficult to patch things to include them. If I had another round tuit, I might even try my hand at writing the patch - but I'm suffering a shortage of tuits of all shapes and sizes, not just the round ones. ;-) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
