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

[Frank Tabor]

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 17:16:57 -0500, Roger T. Imai wrote:

> 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

http://darrenalbers.com/pan/edgy/pan_0.131_i386.deb

-- 
Frank Tabor
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
                -- Dylan Thomas