Re: [Pan-users] Newbie problems with Pan v0.106

[Darren]

Phillip Pi wrote:
> 1. I can't seem to connect to Adelphia's news server (news.adelphia.net). Tin 
> and Old Pan 
> worked. Here's the log:
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Pan 0.106 started
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Expired old score from /home/ant/News/Score, line 7
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Expired old score from /home/ant/News/Score, line 
> 18
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Expired old score from /home/ant/News/Score, line 
> 29
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Read 3 scoring rules in 2 sections from 
> "/home/ant/News/Score"
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Error opening file 
> "/home/ant/.pan2/newsgroups.ynm" No such file or directory
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Error opening file 
> "/home/ant/.pan2/newsgroups.dsc" No such file or directory
> Sun Aug  6 20:01:19 2006 - Loaded data backend in 0.0 seconds

That is really odd, this is with a fresh .pan2?  If you run pan --debug
do you see anything more detailed?

> 
> 2. I see a list of my subscribed newsgroup imported from .newsrc. Where are 
> my unsubscribed 
> ones and how do I list ALL newsgroups? In old Pan, I could select subscribed, 
> unsubscribed, 
> and all if I remember correctly.
If you look just below your list of subscribed groups you will see a
section labeled Other Groups.  Expand that and all the groups will be there

> 
> 3. In the newsgroup list, how do I multiple highlight the newsgroups and 
> right click to 
> download new headers? I can't do that anymore with v0.106. I have to do one 
> at a time. :(
>

Unfortunately you cannot do this right now, the change to make this
possible is non-trivial so I think it was pushed to 1.1.  You can do a
get new headers in subscribed groups, but that is all at this time.