[Pan-users] Surprise! :) (Re: Using Pan on Mac)

2013-12-04 Thread SciFi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm still here! :) And I 'heard' my nick mentioned! ;) I _was_ wanting to build Pan with the "gtk-on-osx" project run by John Ralls here: But I have no plans anymore with the fruity system

[Pan-users] not for me, sorry to say [ Re: Mutex problem is fixed :) ]

2013-02-02 Thread SciFi
Hi, I am talking about my build of 5eef4f in particular. On Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:11:57 -0800, walt wrote: > > Just built git-5eef4f and it all works now. :) If you are talking about line 39 of pan/general/locking.h Maybe for _you_ it's fixed but not for _me_ . ;-( I posted a longish descrip

[Pan-users] My current situations with Pan. (longish)

2013-01-31 Thread SciFi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've actually been behind-the-lines (if you will) helping test Pan and reporting directly to the maintainer of the commits (almost always Heinrich Müller as it turns out). (I thought a bugzilla report wouldn't be proper since the recent patc

Re: [Pan-users] this seems to be fixed with XQuartz-2.7.2-beta4 (Re: Help request please: Latest Xquartz is causing some visual artifacts in Pan.)

2012-04-05 Thread SciFi
On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:17:02 +, Heinrich Müller wrote: > > SciFi posted on Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:10:34 +: > […] >> >> The glitch with Giganews, tho, is still bothering us, as I've asked HM >> for some help privately. Namely, I'd like to see the "h

[Pan-users] this seems to be fixed with XQuartz-2.7.2-beta4 (Re: Help request please: Latest Xquartz is causing some visual artifacts in Pan.)

2012-04-04 Thread SciFi
Hi, Y'know I've been trying to stay current with the XQuartz project. They have been releasing betas for v2.7.2 -- and lately they included the new cairo-1.12.0 inside 2.7.2-beta4, which suddenly seems to fix all the anomalies with Pan I reported last year. :)

Re: [Pan-users] looking for help in creating the git version

2011-11-25 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Fri, 25 Nov 2011 23:21:15 -0600, Bob Davenport wrote: > > I downloaded the latest version of pan2 this evening > and also checked and installed the missing files and such > as listed (GTK+, gmime, etc.) in the INSTALL text. > > As the old saying goes, I'm so lost I don't know where > I'

Re: [Pan-users] Articles Pan Can't Read

2011-08-10 Thread SciFi
Hi, I am able to see all 5 headers /and/ bodies. Using Giganews here. I have built & am running imhotep82's latest GIT version -- since I'm posting this message via Gmane, the User-Agent header line should have the details of this build. :) ___ Pan-

[Pan-users] what I need to do to "jump ship" (Re: To explain why I'm unwilling to update my glib/gtk+/etc libs ATM…)

2011-07-27 Thread SciFi
{I sent this to a net-friend, and thought it would help further explain what I need to do to "jump ship"} Hi, I am recalling a few details I've had in my long history when dealing with other people's PC machines especially the owner/friend of a house I was renting (he had a brain aneurysm and

Re: [Pan-users] spelling lessons (Re: files for imhotep82 git ef96111 - "patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff" yEnc (1/1) 5073 bytes)

2011-07-13 Thread SciFi
On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 22:25:53 +, Duncan wrote: > SciFi posted on Wed, 13 Jul 2011 21:22:38 + as excerpted: > >> Thanks for all the personal writeups, even on the "my jumping ship" >> thread. >> I'll save them for later, when I have more time to

[Pan-users] spelling lessons (Re: files for imhotep82 git ef96111 - "patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff" yEnc (1/1) 5073 bytes)

2011-07-13 Thread SciFi
Thanks for all the personal writeups, even on the "my jumping ship" thread. I'll save them for later, when I have more time to add (and I _do_). I remember the acronym meant by the all-uppercase "PAN". I do have a tiny whim, tho, with current practice: I want to capitalize "Pan" as a proper noun,

Re: [Pan-users] Please test my updated github master branch - "patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff" - yEnc (1/1)

2011-07-12 Thread SciFi
s our personal time allows, then switch back to a more-proven functioning version for regular use. > On 07/12/11 08:58, SciFi wrote: >> (b) With my world-wide Usenet subscriptions at Giganews (primary) and >>Astraweb (fallback) both, no red-flag warnings were seen,

Re: [Pan-users] files for imhotep82 git ef96111 - "patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff" yEnc (1/1) 5073 bytes

2011-07-12 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 21:37:23 +0200, Heinrich Mueller wrote: > […] > (btw, you _could_ use uudeview to check the files... I forgot to mention that I _did_ try uudeview first. Running with the same two messages: $ uudeview -i *msg Note: No encoded data found in pan$b6a6c$56fdd301$760b57bc$2d

[Pan-users] files for imhotep82 git ef96111 - "Gmane_500What?.log" yEnc (1/1) 36377 bytes

2011-07-12 Thread SciFi
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[Pan-users] files for imhotep82 git ef96111 - "patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff" yEnc (1/1) 5073 bytes

2011-07-12 Thread SciFi
=ybegin line=250 size=5073 name=patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff Ž“JWW‘“žJ‹Yš‹˜Y‘Ÿ“Yš™žWŸ“XJŒYš‹˜Y‘Ÿ“Yš™žWŸ“X4“˜Ž¢JbŽ^c_]XX^bŒ`a^[J[ZZ`^^4WWWJ‹Yš‹˜Y‘Ÿ“Yš™žWŸ“X4UUUJŒYš‹˜Y‘Ÿ“Yš™žWŸ“X4jjJW[_]VaJU[_]VaJjjJz™žsddJŸšŽ‹ž‰“–›ŸŸ‰–‹Œ–JRqž•~œ}–ž“™˜JT–ž“™˜S4JJ

[Pan-users] it seems my attachments can't be re-created (Re: Please test my updated github master branch)

2011-07-12 Thread SciFi
Hi again, It seems there is a problem with file-uploads, too, now. The attachments cannot be re-created with your GIT ef96111. Pan's log says "No encoded data found" for those posts. I found the yydecode project at Sourceforge (yes double-'y' there). After I saved the text for each message, yyd

Re: [Pan-users] Please test my updated github master branch - "Gmane_500What?.log" - yEnc (1/1)

2011-07-12 Thread SciFi
Hi, I have problems with your GIT master at ef96111 level. During compilation: (1) When 'make' got into the ./pan/gui section, it said the rng.cc file could not be found, which is needed by rng.o . I removed all references to 'rng*' in the Makefiles under ./pan/gui, and the 'make'

Re: [Pan-users] Please test my updated github master branch - "patches_for_imhotep82_master_GIT-ef96111.diff" - yEnc (1/1)

2011-07-11 Thread SciFi
Hi, I have problems with your GIT master at ef96111 level. During compilation: (1) When 'make' got into the ./pan/gui section, it said the rng.cc file could not be found, which is needed by rng.o . I removed all references to 'rng*' in the Makefiles under ./pan/gui, and the 'make'

[Pan-users] To explain why I'm unwilling to update my glib/gtk+/etc libs ATM…

2011-07-04 Thread SciFi
Hi, I need to explain why I am unwilling to update my glib/gtk+ critters for a while yet anyway. Bear with me, please. In the past I've been a Mac-a-holic. But not anymore. I have been talking to a few people about the mess that Apple is causing everyone WRT the open-source projects. Apple

Re: [Pan-users] In the new file-upload logic, we need to change how Pan apparently slices the binary data…

2011-07-04 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 06:24:47 +0200, Heinrich Mueller wrote: > On 07/03/11 19:22, SciFi wrote: >> >> The actual binary data needs to be split _before_ it is encoded >> (before uuencoded, before yEncoded, before MIME'd, etc.) >> or in the view of the end-u

[Pan-users] In the new file-upload logic, we need to change how Pan apparently slices the binary data…

2011-07-03 Thread SciFi
Hi, I'm contemplating the file-upload feature being put into Pan. I'm speaking for use in the way how massive binary files are being uploaded to the world-wide Usenet, their actual expected formats & usages etc. It seems this new Pan feature is doing a similar thing that the yencee project was

Re: [Pan-users] New Feature - Uploading binaries

2011-06-24 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:39:41 +0200, Heinrich Mueller wrote: > […] lostcoder added this to his testing branch recently... Caution — I sent you and khaley a note on github, saying, his branch=testing at GIT 5b244c2 is crashing here, whenever I try fetching new–headers, no matter what server is

[Pan-users] Here's how I use open-source tools expressly designed for uploading binary files to Usenet.

2011-06-16 Thread SciFi
Hi, I might be using MacOSX, but I try doing everything the *ix/X11 way, including uploading binary files to the world-wide Usenet. There *are* several tools available for *ix users to do file-uploads to Usenet. (heh, I've always wanted to document how I do this without any of those crazy GUI

Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.99999999999999

2011-06-16 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Thu, 16 Jun 2011 16:19:22 +0200, Rhialto wrote: > > On Thu 16 Jun 2011 at 06:21:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Somewhere in this month's list archives is mention of a git branch >> with binary uploads. > > Speaking of git, did the repository at > git://github.com/lostcoder/pan2.git chan

[Pan-users] having problems with your GIT release branch at 772e690 (Re: New Feature - Uploading binaries)

2011-06-14 Thread SciFi
Hi, I tried sending imhotep82 a message at github, it might not look right there, so let me send a fuller message here. Firstly, I had a problem with latest gmime-2.5.8: (I use OSX 10.6.7 and Xcode-3.2.6) This version of gmime forces using its own poll() function, rather than Apple's, but we st

[Pan-users] more lil glitches (Re: updated info)

2010-08-08 Thread SciFi
Hi, I have the latest testing branch running here. (My About box now says "GIT af889ee testing" but I cannot find such an entry at the github repo?) …anyway… My prefs are now always showing: even if I change 'false' to ' ' (which is what I want) while Pan is not running. In fact the saved subd

[Pan-users] clarifications (Re: changing your underscores; some old problems coming back (Re: updated info))

2010-08-05 Thread SciFi
Hi again, Thanks for the discussion on these items I've raised. I feel I need to clarify some things, if I may. On the word-wrap: We need Pan to stop mucking with the way the original texts were posted, when quoting those texts. Unless "someone" actively decides to muck with it. Period. ;) The

[Pan-users] changing your underscores; some old problems coming back (Re: updated info)

2010-08-04 Thread SciFi
Hi, Having the underscores being placed into the generated folder-name(s) [based on the posted Subject line(s)] was driving me crazy. ;) So I put this change in on your testing branch updates: --- text-massager.cc_orig 2010-08-02 23:06:02 -0500 +++ text-massager.cc2010-08-02 23:2

[Pan-users] Re: two small updates

2010-07-28 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:33:56 -0600, "K. Haley" wrote: >[…] > Second, here are the updated tests for converting subject lines to > paths. Yes you use %s in the path spec. Also the help button in the > save dialog lists the available replacements. >[…] I got your latest testing branch runni

[Pan-users] Re: Semi-OT: newspost problems

2010-05-15 Thread SciFi
Hi, I use Pan with GN, too, for downloading stuff and for simple messages (such as this one ;) ). GN does cause an “Unknown Error 0” with Pan, even at times when I have Pan off-line (supposedly). You can see it in Pan’s Event Log (under the File pull-down, or click the button on the extreme lo

[Pan-users] new XQuartz beta seems to help my problems

2010-03-27 Thread SciFi
Hi again, > I think I better now spend time on the font issues. lol Sometimes I think someone at the XQuartz project is reading my lil messages here. I have been using XQuartz-2.4.0 on OSX-10.5.8 (Leopard) which came out in August-2009. (Snow-Leopard 10.6.x still has issues with many open-sourc

[Pan-users] extra user-agent info works (Re: I finally got caught-up, now having ugly font problems. :( )

2010-03-26 Thread SciFi
Hi, Thank you for doing this. :) (/me still learning git gizmos) I think I better now spend time on the font issues. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users

[Pan-users] Re: I finally got caught-up, now having ugly font problems. :(

2010-03-25 Thread SciFi
Hi, I am about to build your ‘testing’ branch to get those bug-patches etc. Thank you. :) >> 424083 [my “platform info” patch; look at this post’s headers :) ] >> > Did you add the --enable-extra-useragent-data flag? I do not see this option on _any_ of your/Kerr’s configure scripts? In f

[Pan-users] I finally got caught-up, now having ugly font problems. :(

2010-03-24 Thread SciFi
Hi, I finally got time (and ’nads lol) to update as much GNome stuff as I can remember. Got all Apple’s official updates for OSX 10.5.8. Then got all these components built into /usr/local (mostly): libxml2-2.7.7 libxslt-1.1.26 intltool-0.40.6 gnome-common-2.28.0 gtk-doc-1.13 libiconv-1.13.1 [al

[Pan-users] Re: Bug squashed

2010-01-20 Thread SciFi
Hi, Very sorry, other things keep getting in my way. :( I will need to do the tests over again, the cache etc here got cleaned-out. When I upgrade stuff, I did have a "cheat sheet" to go thru each (sub)project in sequence, just like a pkg-mgr would do (since I cannot trust 'em to use my build

[Pan-users] Re: Bug squashed

2010-01-15 Thread SciFi
Hi again, Very sorry, I keep forgetting that gmane messes with at-signs. Here is a sample of what the pan gui event log shows (altered for gmane): Thu Jan 14 23:20:52 2010 - Article "BrainSurge-2010-01-04-0.tp Yenc (/3213)" is incomplete -- the news server(s) don't have part <<<

[Pan-users] Re: Bug squashed

2010-01-14 Thread SciFi
Hi, Yes you described my problem very closely (I suppose you can blame me for instigating this ;) ). We have applied that simple one-line patch here, (others are listed as bug-report numbers in my User-Agent header line), compiled & installed it, and tried fetching one of those posts again. Th

[Pan-users] Re: Bug squashed

2010-01-07 Thread SciFi
Hi, > I'm suprised this bug hasn't show its self until now. I guess either > nobody has been pulling down multiparts with more than aprox. 2554 parts > or the mids for those parts had more characters in common. Meh, either > way this bug is squashed, at least according to my tests. Currently

[Pan-users] Re: Checking server for missing parts

2010-01-05 Thread SciFi
thread) did download these same files fine -- they look like this here: >>>> $ ls -al total 10849708 drwxr-xr-x 3 scifi staff442 Jan 4 21:09 . drwxr-xr-x 20 scifi staff 1020 Jan 4 20:55 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 scifi staff 6148 Jan 4 19:42 .DS_Store -rw-r--r-- 1

[Pan-users] This system is not Linux! (Re: I did more testing; using another news-reader those files fetched fine.)

2010-01-05 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:43:53 +, Duncan wrote: > > SciFi posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2010 07:26:59 + as excerpted: > >> I am about >> ready to do self-upgrades on the whole gnome system here myself (I >> never use a pkg-mgr as they all wipe-out my build-envi

[Pan-users] location of version info (Re: I did more testing; using another news-reader those files fetched fine.)

2010-01-05 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:07:31 -0500, Wayne E. Nail wrote: > […] > SciFi, you and I likely have the same version of Pan from Charles's tree > -- I thought he had called it 1.34 at some point -- but I don't know how > to tell. Where is the version information located

[Pan-users] Re: I have problems with some binary postings using yEnc

2010-01-05 Thread SciFi
On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:16:50 +, Duncan wrote: > > SciFi posted on Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:48:22 + as excerpted: > >> (info for my own Pan build is in the header for this very post itself, >> I am using it to post thru gmane) > > One bad thing about gmane is tha

[Pan-users] I did more testing; using another news-reader those files fetched fine.

2010-01-05 Thread SciFi
Hi again, I got binsearch.info to whip-up a NZB for the sample file pointed to here. (Just search on the main Subject filename as shown. Need to use binsearch's "other groups" option for it, too.) This NZB looks fine, nothing is goofed-up, and all 6746 parts are listed within it. Meaning this

[Pan-users] Redid the headers with '(at)' for gmane.

2010-01-05 Thread SciFi
Hi, Let's see if gmane messes with this hacked header: -begin- > Path: > Xby.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.co[…] > From: 1(at)1.com (Squee) > Sender: 1(at)1.com > Newsgroups: a

[Pan-users] I have problems with some binary postings using yEnc

2010-01-02 Thread SciFi
Hi, My build of Pan here is having extreme difficulties with binary postings that are in yEnc format but not marked on the Subject line as such. See the clips below for what I mean, please. I looked into where Pan stores each Message-ID (its articles-cache). I see the poster is using a beta o

[Pan-users] It seems we might have reached some sort of milestone…

2009-04-25 Thread SciFi
Hi, FYI, I just added the following to “Bug 549655 – Support 64 bit article numbers”: We should note on this bug: Apparently sometime late on Tuesday 21 April 2009 CDT (UTC -0500), some people using Xnews began suddenly logging strange errors showing “bits index out of range” and asking for hel

[Pan-users] Re: Changing the Save Article behavior for text only messages.

2009-01-26 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 01:50:52 +, Eric Tompkins wrote: > > Is there any way to get the current release of Pan to use the Subject as > the filename when saving text only messages, instead of the Message ID. > The old Pan did this, and it worked great for text only groups. When > reading / s

[Pan-users] Re: Temporarily dead server

2009-01-12 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:47:41 +, Bruce Bowler wrote: > > One of the servers that I get articles from is "dead", (hopefully only > temporarily). As a result, pan "hangs" for quite some time when I exit > pan, waiting for the network connection to fail. Is there a way to tell > pan to "no

[Pan-users] Re: setting PAN_HOME *does* work; moving doesnt

2008-11-27 Thread SciFi
Hi, My post on this is not two–weeks old yet, it is archived here: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.pan.user/10446 (seems this is a difficult symptom to search for … or …) :) ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://

[Pan-users] Re: Two instances of PAN-a couple of glitches

2008-11-15 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:48:21 -0800, Rick Barry wrote: > > 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

[Pan-users] Re: Increasing connections to server decreases overallspeed

2008-10-05 Thread SciFi
On Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:24:18 -0700, Travis wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "SciFi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: > Sent: Sunday, > October 05, 2008 16:11 PM Subject: [Pan-users] Re: Increasing > connections to server decreases overallspeed >

[Pan-users] Re: Increasing connections to server decreases overall speed

2008-10-05 Thread SciFi
Hi, It might help to adjust sysctl(8) parms, particularly the sendspace and recvspace values. This might require raising the kernel’s maxsockbuf value, too, which probably can only be done during early boot single–user phase (c.f. /etc/sysctl.conf). At least that’s what I do on MacOSX and other

[Pan-users] GigaNews warns "Usenet Growth Reveals Need for 64-bit Based Article Numbering"

2008-08-25 Thread SciFi
Hi, Still mozying around here & there… then I saw this posted at GigaNews website: “Usenet Growth Reveals Need for 64–bit Based Article Numbering” I am a GN customer, pan2 here is set to their U.S. farm as “primary” and to their Europe

[Pan-users] Re: How do you point Pan to use another directory?

2008-06-27 Thread SciFi
Hello, (yeah I am still around ) Just yesterday I tried setting up several pan2 home dirs on a separate volume, wanting to run several instances of pan2 each having PAN_HOME pointing to its corresponding tree. It’s not that simple. Long story short: I had to edit each preferences.xml to chang

[Pan-users] Re: Previews gone screwy

2007-09-27 Thread SciFi
On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 18:50:00 +, Greg Lee wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007 06:14:47 +0000, SciFi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:35:43 -0700, stevem wrote: >>> >>> Sometime in the last week pan stopped perviewing binary images. The >

[Pan-users] Re: Previews gone screwy

2007-09-26 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:35:43 -0700, stevem wrote: > > Sometime in the last week pan stopped perviewing binary images. The body > pane shows just the top half or so of most images I download. I haven't > upgraded pan lately so I suspect a library. Anyone one know which > library controls dec

[Pan-users] Re: clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-16 Thread SciFi
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:12:19 +, Greg Lee wrote: > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:13:57 +0000, SciFi wrote: > >> So, let me go ahead to open a report >> just so we'll have it on record anyway. > > I read your comment #7 about clicking on the Subject header and g

[Pan-users] Re: clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-15 Thread SciFi
On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:28:31 +, SciFi wrote: I've opened Bug #467024 for this problem, at least you-all can see my screengrabs now there. ;) Thanks for any help. ___ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/ma

[Pan-users] Re: clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-15 Thread SciFi
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:03:27 +, walt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:03:27 +0000, SciFi wrote: > >> $ svn info gtk+ >> Path: gtk+ >> URL: http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk+/trunk Repository Root: >> http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gtk+ Repository UUID: >> 7eb1c76a-

[Pan-users] Re: clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-14 Thread SciFi
On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:55:40 +, walt wrote: > On Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:03:27 +0000, SciFi wrote: ... >> There's no way pan2 is written to use the native Mac libs, it'd be a >> totally different critter that way. ;) >> >> Also I do not have the GTK-on-O

[Pan-users] Re: clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-13 Thread SciFi
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:27:23 +, walt wrote: > On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:34:25 +0000, SciFi wrote: ... >> And it's not relegated to the Subject field: Click on "Author" tab once >> -- Author is not sorted but it is hilited all underneath. Do nothing >> els

[Pan-users] Re: clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-13 Thread SciFi
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:01:05 +, Duncan wrote: Hi Duncan, I appreciate all your work, but it really seems overly complex to get working just so you-all can see the missorted columns I'm seeing. ;) I'll attempt to use Apple's Grab.app to produce .png files, then manually uuencode them and co

[Pan-users] Re: clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-13 Thread SciFi
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 01:40:27 +, walt wrote: > On Sun, 12 Aug 2007 16:28:31 +0000, SciFi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> When I click on the Subject bar atop the header pane, it only ends up >> re-sorting by Date. In fact clicking on _any_ of the header bars like >

[Pan-users] clicking on any header-pane bar, only re-sorts header lines by Date only

2007-08-12 Thread SciFi
Hi, When I click on the Subject bar atop the header pane, it only ends up re-sorting by Date. In fact clicking on _any_ of the header bars like that, will only re-sort by Date (increasing or decreasing, each time the opposite direction). Funny thing is, tho, that the particular clicked-on colum

[Pan-users] Re: Bug: Using external editor stops background task.

2007-08-12 Thread SciFi
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 19:39:01 +, Greg Lee wrote: > On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 14:12:20 -0400, Douglas Bollinger wrote: > >> Can you post a bug on this? > > Okay, it's #465763. I added my opinion that it could be regarded as > documented behavior, if there were a document, and if it were described >

[Pan-users] Re: Bandwidth control

2007-08-05 Thread SciFi
> How is it possible to use bandwidth control in Pan? I > don't want Pan to hog all my bandwidth. > Thx As others have mentioned, Pan itself doesn't have such a facility. But depending on your o.s., ThrottleD may be useful -- it's for the *BSD type systems including darwin/osx as it's designed fo

[Pan-users] some nice icon tweaks in newly released gtk+-2.11.0 :)

2007-05-25 Thread SciFi
Pan2 got a nice facelift with the new iconsets (widgets?) in gtk+-2.11.0. But boy are there still some build glitches for darwin/osx. Yeah I'm tracing some of the glitches all the way back to when they changed libtool to do shrext_cmds differently (back in 2004 if I'm reading their Changelogs

[Pan-users] new pango-1.17.0 glitches - fun fun fun :)

2007-05-19 Thread SciFi
Oh boy what fun after upgrading to the new pango-1.17.0. $ pan (pan:22954): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/usr/local/etc/pango/pango.modules' You should crea

[Pan-users] Re: Body pane blank when subjects contain yenc > (/2)

2007-05-13 Thread SciFi
On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:00:42 -0500, Charles Kerr wrote: > walt wrote: >> On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:34:01 +, Duncan wrote: >> >>> SciFi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, >>> on Wed, 09 May 2007 20:34:20 +: &

[Pan-users] Re: "MySQL Backend?"

2007-05-11 Thread SciFi
On Fri, 11 May 2007 23:30:42 +0200, Robert Krig wrote: > > Hi guys. I was just wondering about something. Would it bring any speed > improvement if PAN would use a MySQL backend to store Articles and > Newsgroups? > > It seems as if PAN often chokes on very large newsgroups while browsing, > ente

[Pan-users] Re: 0.129 - a few minor issues

2007-05-11 Thread SciFi
off. >> >> But I'll poke through the open bugs and see if any of the issues I've >> run into are in there - I'd forgotten that Charles had set this up to >> track bugs. >> >> Jim >> >> On 5/10/07, SciFi <[EMAIL PROTECT

[Pan-users] Re: Body pane blank when subjects contain yenc > (/2)

2007-05-10 Thread SciFi
On Fri, 11 May 2007 02:33:25 +, walt wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:03:02 +, SciFi wrote: > >> On Thu, 10 May 2007 19:04:47 +, walt wrote: >> > ... >>> Seems to me that the biggest version gap of all is SciFi's pan r255. >>> I'm

[Pan-users] Re: Body pane blank when subjects contain yenc > (/2)

2007-05-10 Thread SciFi
On Thu, 10 May 2007 19:04:47 +, walt wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2007 14:34:01 +, Duncan wrote: > >> SciFi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, >> on Wed, 09 May 2007 20:34:20 +: >> >>> What's more, the la

[Pan-users] Re: 0.129 - a few minor issues

2007-05-10 Thread SciFi
On Thu, 10 May 2007 19:05:38 +, Jim Henderson wrote: > > One other thing that I had forgotten to mention - the download > performance is AWESOME (as I knew it was in these newer builds), but > I've had points where Pan totally seizes (it eventually does come back > to life, but while it's stuc

[Pan-users] Re: Body pane blank when subjects contain yenc > (/2)

2007-05-09 Thread SciFi
Hi, On Wed, 09 May 2007 10:55:22 -0400, Van Reuther wrote: > > I'm using Pan 1.29 compiled from source (moments ago) on a debian > system. > > In binary groups, where subject contains yenc (/3) or (/4), or (/5), and > so on, don't display in the body pane when reading the article. > > Is there

[Pan-users] Re: posting servers

2007-05-02 Thread SciFi
On Wed, 02 May 2007 05:26:04 +, Thufir wrote: > On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 18:02:08 +, walt wrote: > >> On Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:04:44 +, Thufir wrote: >> >>> Aha! >>> >>> looks like pan now has the ability to grab from multiple servers, so I >>> can download stuff for usenet and gmane direc

[Pan-users] Re: Pan 0.120 only queuing tasks

2007-05-01 Thread SciFi
On Tue, 01 May 2007 06:46:06 +, Duncan wrote: > SciFi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, > on Mon, 30 Apr 2007 23:24:38 +: > >> I also have some highly tweaked sysctl settings that help keep the >> network pipe being filled

[Pan-users] Re: Pan 0.120 only queuing tasks

2007-04-30 Thread SciFi
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:58:40 +, Frederik Himpe wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:15:55 +0100, Steve Davies wrote: >> Perhaps someone could install "Wireshark" and capture a trace with >> "tcp.port == 119" when this problem occurs. That way if it is a network >> level problem as suggested earlier

[Pan-users] Re: How can I set pan2 to show white letters on black backgrounds on all panes?

2007-04-29 Thread SciFi
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 08:02:01 +, Duncan wrote: > SciFi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, > on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:35:06 +: > > [Duncan wrote...] > >>> As for the gtkrc files themselves, initially, my colors were set

[Pan-users] Re: How can I set pan2 to show white letters on black backgrounds on all panes?

2007-04-23 Thread SciFi
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 20:12:30 +, Duncan wrote: > SciFi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 > 18:06:53 +: > >> We're using Apple's X11 but with the guts updated to current >> XFree86-cvs (4.6.99.2

[Pan-users] How can I set pan2 to show white letters on black backgrounds on all panes?

2007-04-23 Thread SciFi
Hi, We're using Apple's X11 but with the guts updated to current XFree86-cvs (4.6.99.22+). How might I set pan2 to show white (or 85% white) letters on a black (15%) background? Must I install the entire Gnome system to do this? I'd rather not if at all possible. The quartz-wm is doing great

[Pan-users] Re: [0.127] yenc decoding bug?

2007-04-14 Thread SciFi
On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 01:06:17 +, walt wrote: > On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 22:28:58 +, Duncan wrote: > >> ...I'd much /rather/ have the >> old idea back, separate direct-save (binary, to the last or default >> location for the group) and save-as (with the usual choices)... > > I had forgotten ho

[Pan-users] Re: po/Makefile bug still there in 0.127 on MacOS X

2007-04-13 Thread SciFi
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 07:21:55 -0400, David Shochat wrote: > I tried building this on MacOS X with MacPorts. I still get the same > problem as with 0.126 (and some earlier version) where in po/Makefile, > we have macros GMSGFMT and MSGFMT defined to nothing on lines 47 and 48 > respectively, causing

[Pan-users] Re: very peculiar bug with EasySW news-server (home of CUPS)

2007-03-28 Thread SciFi
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:36:48 +, SciFi wrote: > [...] > hmm... I've set all of the servers to "never expire" anything here... > that might be a clue, at least I can set EasySW's server to do that. That did the trick: set their server to two-month expire, an

[Pan-users] Re: very peculiar bug with EasySW news-server (home of CUPS)

2007-03-28 Thread SciFi
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:25:03 +, walt wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:57:32 +0000, SciFi wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Been noticing a peculiar thing with EasySW's news-servers (home of >> CUPS). >> >> Add 'news.easysw.com' to your Pan

[Pan-users] very peculiar bug with EasySW news-server (home of CUPS)

2007-03-28 Thread SciFi
Hi, Been noticing a peculiar thing with EasySW's news-servers (home of CUPS). Add 'news.easysw.com' to your Pan server list, get the list of groups, then subscribe to 'cups.commit'. Getting all headers shouldn't be too much at all. Go ahead to mark all headers read. Now, try getting new heade