Re: [Pan-users] Re: pcre error (was: undefined reference to iconv)

2009-01-13 Thread Phil Grundig
Thank you Duncan for keeping list users in the loop concerning development status, and for all your hard work on this list. I suppose the OP does know that, if one can stomach non-OSS software, that both Agent and XNews will run under Wine. I think some dlls have to be added for yEnc in the ca

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Temporarily dead server

2009-01-13 Thread Phil Grundig
Checkboxes/ticks to disable/enable a server would be an entirely sensible (and obvious) usability feature to add. I certainly never would have guessed the '0' connection limit thing, if it works that is. Deleting a server also means the entire newsgroup list has to be downloaded again when th

Re: [Pan-users] Re: compile ?

2009-01-01 Thread Phil Grundig
Good advice. In the meantime: Download and burn a cd from the latest Damnsmalllinux iso. Boot from the cd preferably with the toram and dma boot options. If already connected to a broadband modem you will already be on the net. Install the gtk2-2.12.9.uci extension from the MyDSL browser (or one

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Does the Ubuntu Ibex finally include 0.133

2008-11-08 Thread Phil Grundig
As posted a while back, there's a pan-0.133 extension available for Damnsmalllinux. Nice to know dsl has some more up to date packages than Ubuntu, LOL! --- On Mon, 3/11/08, Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Does the U

Re: [Pan-users] pan 0.133 extension for Damsmalllinux in repo

2008-10-14 Thread Phil Grundig
> > Well, kewl! Thank you, Phil. I don't currently have a box running DSL, > but I do go back to ver 0.35 a long time ago. > Kurt, you might want to look at the current stable dsl. These days it has firefox-2 and a fully drag and drop desktop, still a 50MB download. You

[Pan-users] pan 0.133 extension for Damsmalllinux in repo

2008-10-13 Thread Phil Grundig
much ramdisk space (important for low ram machines) and should work instead. Many thanks to Walt for helping sort out the compile issues. -phil ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Compile problems with pan-0.133

2008-10-12 Thread Phil Grundig
Patch is attached for the benefit of anyone who has the same problem. --- On Sun, 12/10/08, Phil Grundig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Phil Grundig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [Pan-users] Re: Compile problems with pan-0.133 To: pan-users@nongnu.org Date: Sunday, 12 October, 2

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Compile problems with pan-0.133

2008-10-12 Thread Phil Grundig
From: walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Compile problems with pan-0.133 To: pan-users@nongnu.org Date: Sunday, 12 October, 2008, 2:19 AM On Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:25:50 +, Phil Grundig wrote: Editing debug.h as you suggest got me past that next error as well! - thanks very

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Compile problems with pan-0.133

2008-10-11 Thread Phil Grundig
Editing debug.h as you suggest got me past that next error as well! - thanks very much again. make -DUNUSED=''  gives an invalid option error. Next problem (another compiler definition issue maybe?) is: g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../..  -I../.. -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BI   

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Compile problems with pan-0.133

2008-10-11 Thread Phil Grundig
Putting: #define UNUSED at the top of progress.h did indeed get past this error. Thanks! Maybe someone could file a bug for this for this version of gcc. make -DUNUSED doesn't seem to be a recognized argument to make. Also, setting and exporting PCRE_CFLAGS and GMIME_CFLAGS doesn't work, but

[Pan-users] Compile problems with pan-0.133

2008-10-11 Thread Phil Grundig
e__' progress.h:52: error: missing ';' before right brace progress.h:53: error: two or more data types in declaration of `    on_progress_status' etc etc many errors follow Thanks -phil ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-use

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Folders: gone forever?

2008-05-31 Thread Phil
One alternative,I know an unlikely one, is a few faithful users suggest to Charles that we hire a C++ contractor to help him. To get anything meaningful done would cost $2000+ at least I imagine. If 20 people put in $100 each, that might get a couple of bugs fixed. Crazy I suppose. --- Duncan <

Re: [Pan-users] Re: can't fetch news

2008-05-02 Thread Phil
--- arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, just letting you know that the pan 0.14.x > series is deprecated and > > no longer considered supported. > > > ...SNIP > > > but it does scale better (MUCH better!) > particularly in binary groups, > > and has fully automated and transparent

[Pan-users] Status on mulitple server issues

2008-05-02 Thread Phil
Hi What is the status on the multiple servers on localhost issue? After one too many freezes with Pan1, I've finally taken the plunge and am now testing Pan 0.131 (already compiled this a while back), will upgrade soon again to 0.132. I have immediately run into the multiple server issue on loca

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Multiple server support even working?

2008-04-05 Thread Phil
Thank you for this thoughtful analysis. All of your points are well made and well taken. I realize I was whining, but Charles should probably take it as a sign of the level of interest in Pan, if he's reading. It's the program no one bitches about that no one is actually using. No, I wasn't activ

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Multiple server support even working?

2008-04-03 Thread Phil
> Having a way to name > servers would be a > nice additional feature so humans can tell multiple > servers on the > same host apart as well. > The old Pan DID do this, like any reasonable newsreader should. But in their wisdom the developers actually *removed* this expected feature in the new C

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Filters

2008-01-08 Thread Phil
He keeps interposing one of .'`-. between chars of M I 5 in varying permutations, which mucks up my poor simple filter for some reason, unless I just knock out all crospostyers to more tha 4 or 5 groups (hey - not a bad idea anyway). Can this filter deal with that? Also you may want to include "v

Re: [Pan-users] Filters

2008-01-02 Thread Phil
--- Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:09:08 -0800 > carl wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello carl, > > > Is where away to filter out incoming post, i.e > MI5-Persecution: stuff > > within pan? > > Plonk author, Mark as read, Score -. It all > depends

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Feature request: add port to servers, label servers for use with localhost

2008-01-02 Thread Phil
--- Jack Cuyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As a workaround for your issue, you could use > aliases to your /etc/hosts > and then use those aliases rather than an IP or > "localhost" in pan. For > example, say that you are using 3 news servers, > new.gigaserver.com, > news.servernews.com

[Pan-users] Re: Feature request: add port to servers, label servers for use with localhost

2007-12-12 Thread Phil
--- Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm very disapppointed that the new Pan has removed > the ability to add a meaningful user-defined label > to > a server (instead of the undescriptive "1", "2" > etc). > "newsrc-1" is a lot less mea

[Pan-users] Feature request: add port to servers, label servers for use with localhost

2007-11-19 Thread Phil
I'm very disapppointed that the new Pan has removed the ability to add a meaningful user-defined label to a server (instead of the undescriptive "1", "2" etc). "newsrc-1" is a lot less meaningful than "newsrc-uninews" or whatever. Also, the server list under 'Edit News Servers' only shows the IP -

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Import from Old Version

2007-07-22 Thread Phil
I may be blind or something, but I can't find any "export .newrc" menu item/button etc in Pan 0.14.2.91, not can I find a .newsrc file in ~/.pan Where is it? --- Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike - EMAIL IGNORED > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted > below, on Sat

Re: [Pan-users] Re: Are gmime and pcre required during runtime?

2007-07-20 Thread Phil
e, which are 0.5MB each, any better than say Busybox uuencode/uudecode? Thanks for any help. --- Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Phil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Fri, 20 > Jul 2007 09:13:18 -0700: > > > Ah, to answer

Re: [Pan-users] Are gmime and pcre required during runtime?

2007-07-20 Thread Phil
Ah, to answer my own question: I see now that both pcre and gmime have compiled statically. So pan found ligmime-2.0a, libpcre.a etc to statically link in. These libs compile by default statically, or is there something they didn't like about my system to make shared libraries? __

[Pan-users] Are gmime and pcre required during runtime?

2007-07-20 Thread Phil
They don't seem to be. I've compiled pan-0.127 on a livecd distro. Configure asked for gmime and pcre so I compiled and installed these. Pan compiled fine. gtkspell seems to have enabled itself according to config.log When I reboot, I no longer have gmime and pcre installed, but pan still runs

[Pan-users] date is wrong on Pan website (Jan 2, 2006)

2007-01-04 Thread Phil
Just thought I'd send this in. The date posted for the latest release of Pan says Jan 2, 2006 on the website instead of 2007. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

Re: [Pan-users] Re: "freezes" in recent releases

2006-11-02 Thread Phil
I have a problem on the past number of versions (including the latest beta) where large binaries seem to get stuck at around 98-99% and just hang there, while the other connections continue on to the other files in the que. Often I can't even delete these "stuck" downloads from the task list (it

Re: [Pan-users] increase servers over 4

2006-10-29 Thread Phil
Oh Thank you so much for this info. This is something that's always nagged me but I had no clue there was actually a way to increase it like that :-) On 29/10/06, Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: wbrokow1 wrote: > I'd like to increase to my connection limit of 10. > Pan will allow only 4. >

Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.112 "Elijah Craig"

2006-09-15 Thread Phil
Yes it happens exactly the same way for me, either downloading headers or sorting headers. The problem is it's not consistent. It happens sometimes but not others. But it doesn't happen consistently enough for me to figure out exactly what the error is. ___

Re: [Pan-users] ANN: Pan 0.112 "Elijah Craig"

2006-09-15 Thread Phil
I'm still getting a few random shutdowns of Pan when loading new headers. It isn't as severe as before (0.111). It only happens I'd say about 10% of the time now as opposed to 30-40% of the time, so there were definatly some of these bugs fixed, but I think there are still a few left that is cau

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.111 shuts down when loading new msgs from group in XFCE

2006-09-12 Thread Phil
Yes, the new version fixes my problems. It doesn't crash anymore after loading headers. I can see that this is one of the bugs that was fixed in the release notes. :-) On 09/09/06, Douglas Bollinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 9 Sep 2006 12:05:59 -0500 Phil <[EMAIL PRO

[Pan-users] Pan 0.111 shuts down when loading new msgs from group in XFCE

2006-09-09 Thread Phil
Hi, I'm new to the mailing-list.I have had a problem with the last 2-3 versions (weekly betas) of Pan.  Pan will often completely close down with no error messages when going to a new newsgroup and downloading new msgs.  This doesn't happen all the time, but at least a good 30-40% of the time.  I'