Re: [Pan-users] Use Multiple Server Names?

[Ron Johnson]

On 04/17/2012 06:23 PM, JW wrote:
> I am a new user of Ubuntu (10.11), and Pan 0.133.
>
> I am a refugee from Windows XP, and a long time user of Forte Agent.
>
> I subscribe to a paid News Server.
>
> I want to try Pan, but I can’t figure how to do something. I want to
> group selected news groups into two categories, one text, one binaries.
> I want to use two different News Server IP addresses and/or names for
> them. My paid news server does have multiple addresses.
>
> Can I? How please?

To follow up on David's post, from a terminal window:
  mkdir .pan2_text
  mkdir .pan2_bin
  echo "alias text_pan='$PAN_HOME=~/pan2_text pan'" >> .bashrc
  echo "alias bin_pan='$PAN_HOME=~/pan2_bin pan'" >> .bashrc

Exit the window and then reopen it.  Again, from a terminal window:
  alias text_pan bin_pan

If you see the two alias definitions, then I didn't screw up!  Treat the 
aliases as "regular" commands:
  text_pan

Use that when you want to access text groups and bin_pan when you want 
binary groups.

Yes, it means actually typing in commands but that's ok; it won't kill 
you and you might learn something...  :)

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