[Pan-users] Re: Pan 0.120 won't start from Applications menu after crash

[Roger T. Imai]

Duncan:

Thank you so much for your well-considered help. It's great to see that 
the high quality of communications survives in private mailing lists, 
when it's gone down the toilet on Usenet discussion forums.

As I had already saved all my attachments to 
-/rtimai/Documents/Downloads I didn't hesitate to delete the contents of 
the .pan2 folder, and as you predicted, I was able to start Pan normally 
from the Applications menu! I recreated my newsgroup subscriptions 
within minutes. Thanks again SO MUCH!

I remember providing support for Windows users who'd never seen the DOS 
command line, or knew what directories were, or even how to use Windows 
Explorer, and now I feel like them, bewildered by all these 
cryptic-looking folder names, and not knowing their purpose. In Windows 
up through XP, I knew what every single folder was for.

One of my reasons for using Pan in the first place was to borrow 
Ubuntu/Debian/Linux manuals from alt.binaries.ebooks.technical. There 
were a couple that discussed the philosophical differences between *nix 
and Windows, which I think will be a boon to my learning Linux. I am a 
confirmed Linux convert, and have no intention of ever going back to 
commercial software, which is becoming more and more bloated with 
user-accountability features (not to mention security concerns.) 
OpenOffice.org, which I switched to while still running Windows (and now 
 replaced by the Linux version) does everything that I need to do in 
Office 2007 at work.

Thanks so much for your help again. You'll see me on the Linux forums 
eventually, I'm sure.

Oh yes, the Ubuntu repository doesn't list higher than Pan 0.120 (Plate 
of Shrimp,) where do they get these names from, anyway. When I figure 
out how to upgrade to 0.130 I'll do it.


Roger
Antioch TN