RE: [Pan-users] [windows] 3 Needed features

[Michael Walsh]

> I no longer do windows, so am not familiar with the problem.  
> However, something that used to work with similar problems 
> was opening a new window and moving it over top the garbled 
> one forcing a repaint.  Whether that works here or not, I can't say.

No, it still looks all screwed up. Which is a huge shame. Even with .95.
The even more annoying problem is its always loosing headers (as someone
else mentioned)
Why is it just acting badly since the last stable release?
 
> Was 0.14.0 the one missing the view read messages option?  I 
> thought that was one of the 0.14.9x betas?

It does have the option in filters, erm, but it doesn't work. I post a
message, I read it, a day later and no other replies, I can't see the
message.
 
> > Better organisation of stored messages.
> > Documents and Settings\username\.pan\messages\cache
> > Perhaps an option to have them under messages\cache\server\newsgroup
> 
> This won't work.  PAN keeps only one copy of x-posted 
> messages.  In which group would it keep that copy?  (In *ix, 
> one could theoretically use probably hard links to point to 
> it from the various locations, but MSWormOS doesn't have such 
> a feature with many of its file systems, does it?)

Shame, but I can always write a little app to organise the files once they
are 2 months old myself.
 
> At some point, PAN's back-end message handling is going to be 
> rewritten to use SQLite, a database management library 
> compatible with MySQL (but just a library, thus much 
> smaller).

Great, how long is that dream away? Should be interesting on windows, a
great backend but still can't see the messages?