Dieter Britz posted on Sun, 08 Jul 2018 15:46:35 +0200 as excerpted: > Once again I have a new laptop and have installed pan. The first time I > opened it I got a window asking me to register. I did that, hopefully > correctly (eternal-september.ord, my name and password)
If you didn't simply typo putting it in above, that's almost certainly wrong. I don't use eternal-september, but "ord" is either an invalid TLD (top-level-domain) or a new and extremely uncommon one. I'm guessing eternal-september.org (g not d). ... And indeed, mick's reply says as much, listing it as news.eternal-september.org > and then I got the pan window, of course with no ng's yet. But it seems > I can't get any ng's either. When I type into the top window, for > example. alt.usage.english, which I know is an ng, nothing happens. > > I might have done something wrong in the registration; so how can I go > back to that? I expected to find something under File, but don't. > > A second question: is it possible to import a list of ng's from another > PC? I have pan working on the old laptop and have accumulated a longish > list, which I would like to copy into this version of pan - just as I > can import bookmarks into a new Firefox installation. As Detlef and Zan say, pan's files are normally located in ~/.pan2/, on a Linux/Unix-based system. I've no idea beyond what Zan said about MS as I left it behind when I left servantware (see the sig) behind at the turn of the century and stay well away from it these days, but there are a couple other MS users here that may or may not have information on it if you need it. Meanwhile, ~/.pan2/ is simply the default if $PAN_HOME isn't set. You can set that variable to point elsewhere if you like. I exploit this fact here with a pan wrapper script to allow me to run multiple pan profiles, bin, text, test, each with their own cache and settings (but using symlinks to a global settings dir for things like the score and hotkeys files). So if the PAN_HOME var is set and exported in the environment pan inherits, look in that location instead of in the default ~/.pan2/ dir. In that dir there's various files controlling various settings, newsgroup subscriptions and read-message tracking, etc, along with the TLS certificate store if you're using a secure connection, the message cache, etc. But if you're just upgrading your computer and just want to continue where you left off with the old one, probably just copying the whole thing over as-is, is simplest. -- 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 _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
