Duncan (and other list readers who are interested), First of all, most everything worked out quite well. I transferred the giga account to the newly made directory and after all the other steps including logging in and out it launched fine, but had lost its "memory" ie. subscribed groups were gone and had to be resubscribed after downloading the group list. Server settings and posting profiles were fine, even all the messages in the subscribed groups remained, just not their state, (read, unread etc). The subscribed groups and message "memory" are not retained when I close PAN, all groups are lost and I was unable to get PAN to connect after a couple of lauches to get the list of groups again.
The other perplexing glitch: I open a terminal and type pan.giga, it launches but then the process appears to "own" the terminal. No other commands, though they can be typed in, will work. There is no prompt after launching the first instance of PAN. Closing the terminal window also closes the instance of PAN I have open at the moment. If I close PAN without closing the terminal window, I then get my prompt back and can launch the other instance of PAN or whatever else I want to do in the terminal. Perhaps an idiosyncrasy of Ubuntu? Or should I have done something else in .bashrc? There was no PATH command in the file, so I added it as suggested in your instructional, (PATH="$PATH:/home/rick/bin") Thanks for any suggestions. _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users