Re: [Pan-users] UIP where?

[Bob]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:31:54 +0000, Beartooth wrote:

> On Sun, 18 Nov 2012 20:53:27 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> 
>> Beartooth posted on Sun, 18 Nov 2012 19:53:46 +0000 as excerpted:
>> 
>>> The Usenet Improvement Project offers a filter for Pan
>>> 
>>> [*]
>>> Score:: =-9999 Message-ID: googlegroups Message-ID: webtv
>>> 
>>> but it doesn't say where to put it. I don't see a canonical-looking
>>> place it go??
>> 
>> 
>> That would go in the scorefile itself (text-edit added, not via the pan
>> UI).
>> 
>> The [] lines indicate the newsgroup (*-wildcard in this case) and start
>> a section.  The Score: lines start an individual score, and the
>> Message-ID:
>> lines are conditions for applying that score.  (Without looking it up
>> to be sure, I believe Score: single-colon indicates AND, ALL conditions
>> would need to match to trigger, Score:: double-colon indicates OR, ANY
>> matched condition triggers.)
> 
>       OK, let's see if I've got it. I went to .pan2, and opened it with
> gedit.
> 
>       It was full of short passages with blank lines between, each with
> "%BOS" and "%EOS" at start & finish. Each also had a line saying it had
> been made by Pan.

The %BOS stands for Beginning of Score and the %EOS stands for End of 
score.  There must be a blank line between the final %EOS and the new %BOS

> 
>       I skipped a line, then inserted what the UIP had given me,
> verbatim (without the BOS/EOS, being as how I'm not Pan). Is that right?

No. It must be entered just like the other scores in the score file.

> 
>       When I told gedit to save, it renamed the file to Score~; I
> changed that to plain "Score" and the original to "ScoreOLD"

That way you haven't done anything.  The Score~ file is the backup, 
ScoreOLD is the file you saved and should be Score or score(however the 
original file was or was not capitalized.
> 
>       So have I Eternalized September, Lo! these many moons later?