Paul Crawford wrote:
I noticed that pan keeps stuff in the ~.pan2 folder including most of
the cache of partly transfered files and group settings.
However, I tried to manually clear the article-cache and groups
directories after closing pan, then restarted it and found that it
'remembered' the
Paul Crawford wrote:
walt wrote:
Anyway, you probably want to look into how to configure the hald
system, which you can do using the command-line utilities packaged
with hal. You probably already have hal installed, so just try
typing hal-device at a command prompt and see what happens.
A qu
Beartooth posted
pan.2009.02.22.18.31...@swva.net, excerpted below, on Sun, 22 Feb 2009
18:31:31 +:
> Hmmm ... "the PAN_HOME var functionality" rings no bells. Where do I
> find out about it?? Not having to find (nor remember!) the groups is
> very appealing. There's at least one, for exampl
I noticed that pan keeps stuff in the ~.pan2 folder including most of
the cache of partly transfered files and group settings.
However, I tried to manually clear the article-cache and groups
directories after closing pan, then restarted it and found that it
'remembered' the previously read art
walt wrote:
I assume you are using some sort of automounting, or you would
just do the mounting yourself, right?
I was thinking here of the auto-mount on device plug-in. For the Windows
NTFS volumes I already have edited /etc/fstab to add the 'noexec' option.
As for the problem with Pan save
Paul Crawford wrote:
One thing that bothers me is the way LINUX seems to default to
execute-enabled on such drives (most likely USB sticks). OK, you might
want to run stuff off a CD for installing, but given the ease of viruses
in the world of Windows to propagate using either autorun or user
gu
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
Windows doesn't understand Unix/Linux file systems, so it can't see Unix
permissions natively. However, Windows does support NTFS, which uses an
extraordinarily rich set of Access Control Lists capable of emulating
anything Unix permissions can do, and far, far more. Most
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:14:27 +, Duncan wrote:
[snipperoo]
> Note that unlike some news clients, pan does NOT clear headers in groups
> you unsubscribe, just because you've unsubscribed. (Of course, if you
> have it set to expire messages, it'll do that as they come due.) Thus,
> as l
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 17:14:27 +, Duncan wrote:
[snipperoo]
> But as I've explained before, I find it easier to save messages I really
> want to keep in my mail client, and that's really easy now since all you
> have to do is hit followup and put something in the mailto header (and
> dele
Beartooth posted
pan.2009.02.22.16.30...@swva.net, excerpted below, on Sun, 22 Feb 2009
16:30:12 +:
> There are some topics, apps, and lists about them, which I monitor for a
> while every year or two, and then disregard between whiles.
> [Am I] I'm better off leaving my copy of Pan subscri
There are some topics, apps, and lists about them, which I
monitor for a while every year or two, and then disregard between whiles.
The best example is Wine: it's been getting closer and closer for
the last ten years to what I really want, handling my legacy GPS/topo map
soft
Duncan wrote:
But, your mention of SAMBA jarred my thinking. If I'm not mistaken (and
maybe I am as I've never used SAMBA), Windows won't see Unix file
permissions no matter what serves up the file. It's just not designed to
work that way.
Windows doesn't understand Unix/Linux file systems
walt posted
gnq4up$fi...@ger.gmane.org, excerpted below, on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 00:06:50
+:
> On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:35:32 +, Duncan wrote:
>
>> The thing is, however, that UUE includes the file permission field, and
>> even Windows apps will need to put /something/ there. My question
>>
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