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[Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server)
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Duncan |
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[Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server) |
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Wed, 5 Jul 2006 14:43:12 +0000 (UTC) |
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pan 0.101 ("A pulse of dying power in a clenching plastic fist.") |
Jeff Berman <address@hidden> posted
address@hidden, excerpted below, on
Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:07:16 -0700:
> Brad, I guess a work around might be to write a small
> front end launcher for pan that merely swaps out
> various .pan2 directories for the one containing the
> groups you want to work with.
That's the traditional Unix(R) approach. Make each little tool scriptable
(like PAN is a bit now with command line options), and able to do its job
well, and have a powerful scripting language/system with pipes,
redirection, stdin/stdout/errout, etc, that a user can use to glue
everything together in a customized fashion that "just works" the way they
want it to. I've done that sort of thing for years, back on MSWormOS
using batch files (heh, prompting for input a character at a time =8^)
and later WinBatch (from WilsonWindowWare) and finally MSVB, and now on
Linux with bash, or if one get's fancy, with (gtk|k|x)?dialog and/or
python/perl/whatever.
I was just going to suggest it, then saw you already had. =8^)
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- Re: [Pan-users] choosing news server, (continued)
- Re: [Pan-users] choosing news server, David Kelly, 2006/07/04
- Re: [Pan-users] choosing news server, walt, 2006/07/04
- [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Beartooth, 2006/07/04
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), walt, 2006/07/04
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), David Kelly, 2006/07/04
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Charles Kerr, 2006/07/04
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), walt, 2006/07/04
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Brad Rogers, 2006/07/05
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Jeff Berman, 2006/07/05
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Brad Rogers, 2006/07/05
- [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server),
Duncan <=
- Re: [Pan-users] Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), K. Haley, 2006/07/06
- [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Duncan, 2006/07/05
- [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Kevin Gottsman, 2006/07/05
- [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Beartooth, 2006/07/06
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), walt, 2006/07/06
- RE: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Travis, 2006/07/06
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Jeff Berman, 2006/07/06
- RE: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Travis, 2006/07/06
- Re: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Steve Jeppesen, 2006/07/06
- RE: [Pan-users] Re: Aggregating servers (was Re: choosing news server), Travis, 2006/07/06