Re: [Pan-users] Pan over SSH tunnel?

2018-01-03 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, I haven't really been following this thread, so apologies if my reply doesn't make sense.  But in the past, I used to use stunnel with Pan to connect to secure servers.  Perhaps that would be an option for you?  https://www.stunnel.org ___ Pan-

Re: [Pan-users] Using Pan on Mac

2013-12-04 Thread Jeff Berman
> From: TvH. Diversen >To: pan-users@nongnu.org >Sent: Wednesday, December 4, 2013 12:43 AM >Subject: [Pan-users] Using Pan on Mac > > >Hi, > >I am a Mac user and thinking about switching over to Pan as Newsreader. I have >2 pratical questions: > >1.  Does Pan use "Open Transport"? Reason is th

Re: [Pan-users] Can I format displays?

2012-01-31 Thread Jeff Berman
>From: Beartooth >To: pan-users@nongnu.org >Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 12:09 PM >Subject: [Pan-users] Can I format displays? > >Is there a way to tell Pan I >want it to wrap lines of text in what I read, as it does when I write? I'm not in front of Pan at the moment, so going off of memo

Re: [Pan-users] Backing up settings

2011-04-27 Thread Jeff Berman
On Apr 27, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Jeffrey Needle wrote: > Hello. I need to find out how to transfer my Pan settings from one computer > to another, and how to back up these settings. I don't see anything in the > menus to help with this. I use Ubuntu Linux, latest build. Thanks. Hi, all of pa

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Is GTK 3 supported?

2011-03-24 Thread Jeff Berman
- Original Message > From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 10:17:24 PM > Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Is GTK 3 supported? > > Normally, major version number changes indicate API changes, so pan > wouldn't be expected to work (yet, it'll p

Re: [Pan-users] Is GTK 3 supported?

2011-03-23 Thread Jeff Berman
- Original Message > From: Jeff Berman > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Sent: Wed, March 23, 2011 7:57:00 PM > Subject: [Pan-users] Is GTK 3 supported? > > Hi everyone, I'm in the process up upgrading to pan 0.134 and thought I'd > take > the opportunity

[Pan-users] Is GTK 3 supported?

2011-03-23 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi everyone, I'm in the process up upgrading to pan 0.134 and thought I'd take the opportunity to update all my old dependencies. When I got to GTK, I downloaded and compiled the most recent version, which was 3.0.5. However, Pan is complaining about it during the configure step: "checking fo

Re: [Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-15 Thread Jeff Berman
From: Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> To: pan-users@nongnu.org Sent: Mon, November 15, 2010 7:53:36 AM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release) Duncan posted on Mon, 15 Nov 2010 07:53:36 as excerpted: > OK

Re: [Pan-users] Re: [OT] Software politics (was Re: Re: Questions about the next release)

2010-11-15 Thread Jeff Berman
>>> Duncan's presence and constancy here is valued by many. >> ... >> >> Count me among them. And he has the most delightful way of sailing >> above a flame war with nary a feather singed while those below hose >> each other with napalm. > >And myself also. And me! Although I do confess that I

Re: [Pan-users] So, what's left before 1.0?

2009-10-28 Thread Jeff Berman
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:12:07Charles Sullivan wrote: > As far as I'm concerned, PAN lost 75% of its overall utility when > the ability to save posts in folders was dropped. (I used this > feature to save solutions and tips posted in technical newsgroups.) That may be, but as far as I'm concerned

Re: [Pan-users] 0.134 and Beyond

2009-09-28 Thread Jeff Berman
- Original Message > From: Wayne E. Nail > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Sent: Monday, September 28, 2009 4:06:07 PM > Subject: Re: [Pan-users] 0.134 and Beyond > > Might it be possible and/or worthwhile for you to share what is required > to make Pan compile and run in, say, Leopard 10.5.

Re: [Pan-users] 0.134 and Beyond

2009-09-28 Thread Jeff Berman
- Original Message > From: Charles Kerr > Subject: [Pan-users] 0.134 and Beyond > > I've gotten my git account refreshed at gnome.org and have started > committing changes for 0.134. :) Wow, terrific! Welcome back, even if it's only for a little while. I wish I could help out, as I am

Re: [Pan-users] Better processing of very large groups?

2009-07-02 Thread Jeff Berman
> From: Ron Johnson > Subject: [Pan-users] Better processing of very large groups? > > As it is, pan seems to sequentially scan thru all messages when marking a > group > of them as Read. > > There needs to be a better and less memory intensive method of handling huge > groups. B-trees, has

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Compiling and running pan on OS X Leopard

2008-05-30 Thread Jeff Berman
- Original Message > From: Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:25:35 AM > Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Compiling and running pan on OS X Leopard > > Hopefully someone better informed can add to this, as I don't do Mac (or > indeed, slaveryware

[Pan-users] Compiling and running pan on OS X Leopard

2008-05-30 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, this may be sort of a dumb question, but is it possible and/or feasible to run pan on Mac OS X 10.5 without using Fink or MacPorts? I've traditionally used Fink under 10.4 to install gtk, etc., but I just got a new Mac with Leopard and I'm setting it up now. If, as Apple states, OS X is a

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Message Search

2008-04-11 Thread Jeff Berman
> From: Duncan > To: pan-users@nongnu.org > Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:29:44 PM > Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Message Search > > William Scalione posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 > 12:21:41 -0400: > > > I use Pan for my newsgroup program, but sometimes I need

[Pan-users] Tip jar

2008-02-01 Thread Jeff Berman
I'm in, too! Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.127 compilation problem

2007-04-17 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi Lionel, --- Lionel B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I seem to have run into the same problem compiling > 0.127 (linux) that > turned up in 0.126, when compiling against gtk+ > 2.6.10... Yes, this was filed (and fixed) as bug 429449: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=429449 Cheers, Jef

[Pan-users] Re: Trouble compiling pan 0.126 - the cause

2007-03-30 Thread Jeff Berman
Ahah, I believe I found out why pan 0.126 won't compile on my system. Source file header-pane.cc uses "gtk_tree_view_get_visible_range()", which was introduced into gtk at version 2.8; however, I'm running gtk 2.6.10. pan's system requirements page still shows the minimum version as gtk 2.4 -- ha

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Trouble compiling pan 0.126

2007-03-29 Thread Jeff Berman
--- walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wonder if wrapping that in an extern "C" would fix > your problem. > Worth a try, anyway. Thanks Walt, I tried that but it didn't help; the same error was given. Thanks for the attempt, though! Jeff __

[Pan-users] Trouble compiling pan 0.126

2007-03-28 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi all, I'm having a compilation error with this latest pan build, and while it's probably something on my end maybe someone can help. Let me preface by saying that even getting "make" to function required adding the line GMSGFMT = /sw/bin/msgfmt to the Makefile in pan-0.126/po. I forget why t

Re: [Pan-users] An old bug in a new build?

2007-02-26 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Charles Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yep, me. I've just fixed it in SVN though. :) Cool, thanks Charles! And Walt, thank you for checking it for me! Finding fabulous fares is fun. Let Yahoo! Fare

[Pan-users] An old bug in a new build?

2007-02-23 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, I was wondering if anybody could confirm something for me. With pan .125 or maybe .124, I'm seeing the return of a previously-fixed bug. What happens is that if you select a block of articles and then delete them, pan sort of loses its place in the article list so that you're positioned lower

Re: [Pan-users] re: nntp setup

2007-02-18 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Donald Duquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, The ports. 25,110,119. But 119 will not > respond. Hi Donald, what ISP do you use and what was the server name they told you to input. As in "news.isp.com" or "smtp.isp.com"... __

Re: [Pan-users] nntp server setup

2007-02-18 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Donald Duquet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My ISP instructed me > to use the same info for pop3, smtp and nntp. Hi Donald, What ISP and what values did they instruct you to use? Don't get soaked. Take a

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.122 won't 'make'

2007-02-05 Thread Jeff Berman
--- David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was able to get it to build by manually repairing > po/Makefile (same as > Steve Davies described for the Windows build). Just > use whatever is the > right path for msgfmt in your fink setup. Yup, that worked for me as well, although I had to sp

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.122 won't 'make'

2007-02-05 Thread Jeff Berman
--- David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I have a laptop with OS X which I've built pan > on before, last time > was 0.112 (I have macports, msgfmt is in > /opt/local/bin). > ... > I tried 0.122 on it and exactly duplicate the error > you reported. Sweet, thank you for confirming that!

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.122 won't 'make'

2007-02-04 Thread Jeff Berman
--- David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, in my po/Makefile, I see: > > .po.gmo: > file=`echo $* | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ > && rm -f $$file && $(GMSGFMT) -o $$file $< > > so it looks like for some reason GMSGFMT is > undefined in yours. Further > up, mine defines that

[Pan-users] Pan 0.122 won't 'make'

2007-02-03 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, When I try to build pan 0.122, it fails like this: G3:~/Desktop/pan-0.122 jberman$ make make all-recursive Making all in po file=`echo am | sed 's,.*/,,'`.gmo \ && rm -f $file && -o $file am.po /bin/sh: line 1: -o: command not found make[2]: *** [am.gmo] Error 127 make[1]: *** [all-recur

Re: [Pan-users] Pan Mac OS X and doble-clicked URL

2006-12-15 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Yvon Thoraval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i'd like to know if their is a way to get Pan url > doble clicking working on > Mac OS X ? Pan single clicking already works. Just go to Edit->Edit Preferences, click on the Applications tab, and make sure the options are set to "OS X Default". Jeff

[Pan-users] Binaries subject lines incorrectly formatted?

2006-10-20 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, I just noticed that Binary subject lines are sometimes formatted funny, like "Test_File.rar (/53)". There is no number before the "/53". Is this by design, since pan is collapsing all 53 articles into one thread, or is something amiss here? This is with pan .117 on OS X. Thanks! Jeff ___

Re: [Pan-users] Group context menu on Mac

2006-08-15 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Charles Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Semi-OT, does web browsing work right w/OSX & 0.108 > when you set the > web browser to "Default OS/X Browser" in > Edit|Preferences|Behavior? It does (thank you!), but the default width of the preference window is narrow enough that toggling between "

Re: [Pan-users] [.108] Trouble building on Mac OS

2006-08-15 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is a bug > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=351301 > that > says pan 0.108 does not build on GTK < 2.8 and a > patch. Yes, that fixed it, thank you! Sorry, I only just now realized that bugzilla only searches on open bugs by default, which i

[Pan-users] [.108] Trouble building on Mac OS

2006-08-15 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi everyone, I'm having trouble building pan .108 (previous versions built just fine). Apologies if this has been covered before--I didn't see any mention of this particular issue. This is the output from make: Making all in gui if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I/sw/include/gli

Re: [Pan-users] Group context menu on Mac

2006-08-14 Thread Jeff Berman
--- David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried (with 0.108) to get the context menu for a > group under Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger). This was built on top of > MacPorts (previously called DarwinPorts). The standard equivalent > for right-mouse in OS X is ctl-click, but that did nothing. By > ex

Re: [Pan-users] Mac users showing bold headers?

2006-08-10 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Benjamin Esham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using Tiger and Fink; the bold shows up fine > with DejaVu Sans > (http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page). Hi, that helps a lot. I'm using Tiger and Fink as well. On your computer, are the DejaVu fonts the only ones that come u

[Pan-users] Mac users showing bold headers?

2006-08-10 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, the flurry of emails about font colors made me realize that no matter which font I choose, I have never seen a bold post in the new version of pan. Have any other OS X users seen unread posts show up as bold? If so, did you do anything special to enable this? Thanks! __

[Pan-users] Priority of downloading headers

2006-08-03 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi everyone, pan now seems to dedicate all available connections to downloading headers. While this is great when nothing else is going on, it does interrupt the downloading of binaries. I personally like to start some items downloading, and then while that's going on I'll go to another group to

[Pan-users] Suddenly can't load any groups

2006-08-01 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi there, Something odd just happened with pan. It now aborts any time I double click on a group name. Deleting the preferences.xml file resolves it, but I wanted to bring this up in case pan is prone to corrupt preference files or something. At a glance, I don't see anything obviously malforme

Re: [Pan-users] Modal "Next" and "Back" buttons?

2006-07-31 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Charles Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Go menu would look like this ([x] are > checkboxes): > > Read More (space) > Read Less (backspace) > --- > Next Unread Group (G) > Next Group (shift-G) >

Re: [Pan-users] Re: 0.105 Header Pane deleted article behavior

2006-07-31 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, something similar was fixed, I was the one that > reported it. However, > the behavior described here is different yet, as it > used to re-home (jump > to the top of the list again), every time the view > filter was changed. Actually, something *identi

Re: [Pan-users] another thing I just noticed, wrt selecting articles

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Berman
--- jef_e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 0.105, I can no longer click and drag to select a > batch of articles - > I have to Ctrl-click each one (or select the first, > and shift-select the > last ) to get the ones I want. Yes! I used to use this feature all the time for selecting ranges of arti

Re: [Pan-users] 0.105 Header Pane deleted article behavior

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Berman
--- jef_e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using tabbed mode in the new version, behavior in > the Header Pane is a > bit unexpected when selecting many articles and then > deleting them. This was fixed around pan .100 or so; maybe the fix didn't extend to tabbed mode..?

Re: [Pan-users] Read More

2006-07-30 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Artur Jachacy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At the moment, when Read More reaches the end of an > article, it goes to the > next unread article, instead of the next article. > I reported this in > , > and > Charles decided we should discuss it h

[Pan-users] downloads stalling out

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, I really don't think this is a pan issue per se, but I thought I'd bring it up just in case. pan sometimes will stall out while downloading binaries, and will never recover. The download speed indicator field at the bottom left gradually drops closer to zero kb/s and the only way to recover i

Re: [Pan-users] Re: blank Action column

2006-07-27 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't done binaries in awhile, so haven't seen > whether queued for > download shows, but the action column regularly > shows the "stacked disks" > icon indicating the message is cached after > download, so it's certainly > not always blank. I think he

Re: [Pan-users] Re: selecting groups in pan 0.1xx

2006-07-25 Thread Jeff Berman
--- walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 22:53:56 +0200, Thomas Fricke > wrote: > > > Hi... > > > > is someone able to select more than one group in > the group pane? > > At least I am not ;-) > > I can't either. But I'm curious why you would want > to select more > than one g

Re: [Pan-users] How to launch web browser under OS X

2006-07-25 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi Charles, --- Charles Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What shell are you using? > Assuming you're using bash, there are at least two > ways: > > % export BROWSER="/usr/bin/browser" > % ./pan > > and > > % BROWSER="/usr/bin/browser" ./pan > > The former says "set this variable until I c

Re: [Pan-users] How to launch web browser under OS X

2006-07-25 Thread Jeff Berman
> > Maybe this will work. Good luck. > > 2006/7/25, Jeff Berman: > > Hey, has anyone running OS X gotten a link in pan to > > open up in a web browser? I don't have GNOME > > installed, so I'm trying to use the BROWSER > > environment variable Than

[Pan-users] How to launch web browser under OS X

2006-07-25 Thread Jeff Berman
Hey, has anyone running OS X gotten a link in pan to open up in a web browser? I don't have GNOME installed, so I'm trying to use the BROWSER environment variable. In the xterm window, I tried typing both BROWSER="/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari" and BROWSER="/Applications/Safari.

[Pan-users] [.104] Two issues with the "Get Headers from Server" window

2006-07-25 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, If a group is in the process of downloading headers from the server, and then you activate another group and then activate the original group, the "Get Headers from Server" window will pop up again, even though headers are already, um, getting. I'll file this as a bug. Also, if you leave the

Re: [Pan-users] screenshots, OS X working for latest beta?

2006-07-08 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, --- Darren Albers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > marco stagno wrote: > > > > I had no troubles, just a little path patch in a > header (I'm using DP) > > > > What path did you need to change and in which header > file? The file /sw/include/glib-2.0/glib/gi18n.h has an include that the system d

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server)

2006-07-06 Thread Jeff Berman
--- walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps there are other reasons for wanting to keep > groups in a subdirectory/folder/collection? What > about a MicroSoft employee who likes to cruise the > linux groups and offer help to linux newbies? I know several people who download music and don't want

Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server)

2006-07-05 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use two servers under 0.14 which are, in fact, the same > server, but have different sets of newsgroups. One > set, I read daily, and automatically download headers and articles. > With the other set of groups I d/l headers, and only download > artic

Re: [Pan-users] Re: ANN: Pan 0.101 "A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist."

2006-06-25 Thread Jeff Berman
--- David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having said all that all is not rosy. Double-click on a subscribed > group, CPU goes to 100%, Pan 0.101's window title changes to the > group name, CPU drops to normal idle, window title returns to "pan", > and nothing is listed. "It worked in 0.100

Re: [Pan-users] [.100] Server authentication issues

2006-06-22 Thread Jeff Berman
--- walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Berman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I subscribe to a 3rd party Usenet service. Ever since the .9x > > betas appeared, pan has periodically stalled out on Binary > > downloads. The only way to recover is to quit a

[Pan-users] [.100] Server authentication issues

2006-06-21 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi all, I subscribe to a 3rd party Usenet service. Ever since the .9x betas appeared, pan has periodically stalled out on Binary downloads. The only way to recover is to quit and restart pan. Has anyone else seen this? There's nothing revealing in the Event log so I don't really know what th

Re: [Pan-users] [0.100] Crash on sorting tasks list

2006-06-20 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Keith Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > With some (#? tried with 125 and 10 total items) in the task > list, if I shift click more than one item and attempt to move > these items down, Pan disapears. Yes, for me this happens frequently, even if I'm just moving one task item up or down. ___

[Pan-users] --debug options?

2006-06-15 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi everyone, I've been trying to track down an issue in pan .99 where one or more download tasks sometimes just stop downloading binaries, so I'd like to use the --debug flag to see what's going on behind the scenes. However, the symptom only seems to appear when downloading very large files, and

Re: [Pan-users] a question..

2006-05-31 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi Marco, --- marco stagno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > and, just out of curiosity, I'm using mac osx; I was able to > compile v.0.98 without troubles, but I have several error (as > someone already wrote here) with the 0.99 and, at this times, > no patch found here seems to work.. I had the sa

[Pan-users] A different compile error

2006-05-29 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, I was able to compile pan .98, but .99 is giving this error when issuing "make": Making all in pan Making all in general if g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../.. -I../.. -I/sw/include/glib-2.0 -I/sw/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/local/include -g -O2 -MT e-util.o -MD -MP -MF ".deps/e-util.Tp

Re: [Pan-users] Re: [.98] Issues

2006-05-24 Thread Jeff Berman
--- Duncan wrote: > 5) I think you have mistaken what the active connections thing is > indicating, and/or haven't waited long enough to see them go down. > > Connections stay "active" for some time after they go idle. > Eventually, if no new traffic appears, they will terminate, but what that

[Pan-users] [.98] Issues

2006-05-23 Thread Jeff Berman
Greetings, Well, good job Charles and everyone! With version .98, pan is really coming into its own. Here are some issues I've found with .98 on Mac OS X with GTK 2.4.9. Please let me know if I should add them to bugzilla. 1) While downloading some binaries, one got stuck. It showed "98% Done

Re: [Pan-users] [.97] Some usability issues

2006-05-16 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi Charles, Charles Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (1) I don't really want to do per-group sort orders unless there's > an overwhelming clamor for them, but 0.98 has a persistent, > global sort order. That works! >> 2) It might be me, but the direction of the sort direction > arrow seems to

[Pan-users] [.97] Some usability issues

2006-05-15 Thread Jeff Berman
Hi, this is my first bug report/feature request, so hopefully this is the right place to do this. And to all the developers who have put so much into pan, thank you for all your hard work! I love using pan, and the new version in April was an amazing surprise. So here are some things I've experi