Re: [Pan-users] State of Windows port

[Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom]

> I think Pan is better than either of those for dealing with binaries at 
> this point.  For reading text groups Agent still has the edge in my book 

one thing I really miss from Agent, is the option which saves the text of
the message, when downloading binaries. that way, when your
auto-download-and-decode rules find something you like, you can find the
original post and read it, without having to download again.

> But I haven't actually run Agent in about 6 months because for the amount 
> of text group reading I do it's silly to keep a separate news reader 
> installed (much less one that works as slowly as Agent sometimes does 
> whether under Wine or not.)
        I always found Agent to be *amazingly* fast. Much more than Pan used
to be, and maybe even marginally faster than it is now. Even when it was
Agent on a P166 running win95, and pan now on a 1.1GHz Thunderbird K7.

Carl Soderstrom.
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
www.real-time.com