[Pan-users] Re: pan2 installed with Macports - how to start it?

[Joachim Osnabryg]

David Shochat schrieb:
> Joachim Osnabryg wrote:
> > Yesterday I installed the Newsreader pan2 with MacPorts on Mac-OSX. ...
> >
> > How to start pan2?
> (gulp) this almost went out in HTML. 

Yes indeed, I remarked this after starting pan immedeately. But 
not HTML is my unmet disire for a Newsreader. But better handling 
than Pan and Thunderbird I could well dream of.
Funny, but good luck for me, that you, David, are following the 
pan-user group, nevertheless.

> is from memory. First of all, you need to be running the X Server
> (maybe just called X11). If you haven't already, 

X11 is installed longtime, I used it for the former version of OO.o

> When you run it (start it the same way you would start any
> normal MacOS X app), it will bring up an xterm shell window. If you
> start pan from that window, it should work (DISPLAY should be set
> properly in that shell window). You may need to give the full
> pathname. So if I remember correctly, MacPorts puts things in
> /opt/local/bin, so that would be /opt/local/bin/pan. 

With
cd /opt/local/bin/
and then:
./pan

I finally got it. I began to wright this f'up in pan, tried to 
save it, but didn't manage to get it back.
Therefore I went back to my Thunderbird, to wright this message 
again and send it.

I was interested in Pan because I miss the functionality of old 
Forte Agent for Windows,
but I'm already cured from the idea of trying out Pan.

> do that at the moment. Maybe this weekend... 

Thank you, David, so far. I don't want to absorb you with the 
X11-pan-start question. I think I've already made up my mind, 
that Pan with X11 on Mac is not my wishable alternative to 
Thunderbird.

==> But if you or anybody else had an suggestion for another and 
better newsreader for Mac-OSX, it would be welcome! (therefore I 
crosspost it on de.comm.software.newsreader).

Goutgaun! joachim
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