[Pan-users] Which Application?

[Robert Tilley]

I have read and archived (not yydecoded and saved to disk, but merely saved 
within the newsbase) several articles which are yEnc'oded.  When I ask Pan to 
save them to disk (shift-S) it only shows that hard disk icon (stack of green 
circles) next to them.  When I save articles from another group to disk, the 
floppy disk icon shows next to the titles.

I deduce from this that the articles that can be uudecoded are processed and 
saved to disk.  The articles from the other group which are yEnc'ed are not, 
as they can never be successfully decoded.

I run a Debian unstable box and use Pan 0.11.2.  I have tried to compile Pan 
0.11.2.91 but have been unsuccessful.  That's a story for another time.

I believe that if I could define a preference in Pan to always use uudecode 
for uuencoded files but to use yydecode for  yEnc'ed files that this problem 
could be avoided.  Perhaps I have to simplistic a view of Pan but I think I 
should be able to define what programs that Pan would use as utilities 
(uudecoding, uuencoding, yenc'ing, etc.).
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Thank you for any comments or information!

Robert Tilley, address@hidden