Re: [Pan-users] Re: Pan v0.14.2.91 crashing X hard (black screen)/messing up NVIDIA card badly...

[Phillip Pi]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 01:38:02AM +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Phillip Pi <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted below, on  Sat, 26 Aug
> 2006 16:52:02 -0700:
> 
> > Yeah, but the new one is limited to me. :( I wonder if I can compile the
> > old Pan and keep it separated. Can both versions share the .newsrc
> > safely with Tin?
> 
> If you have only a single server, they should.  New-pan uses a newsrc per
> server, while old-pan had one for all servers IIRC.  I have no idea what
> tin uses.
> 
> Also note that the scorefiles are different, altho both are based on
> slrn's scorefile.  New-pan is closer to it, while old-pan is closer to the
> xnews mod, in that xnews took regexs in the group line, while new-pan only
> takes *-wildcard style expressions (still case insensitive as xnews,
> however).
> 
> Just make sure you keep a backup of any file you share...

I believe old Pan and tin use the same method because when I clear posts that I 
read, I do not 
see the old posts. I do not use multiple news servers, only giganews.com. 

It would be nice if we can tell newer Pan which method to use. Here's the 
thing. I use tin for 
text reading. Pan for binary stuff. :) That's why I use both for one .newsrc 
file.
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