Re: [Pan-users] Preserving Pan Session History Between XP/Mandriva

[David Shochat]

Christopher Boorman wrote:
> I've got my thunderbird mail folder and my firefox bookmarks stored on a
> separate drive so that whatever I do in one application when I'm in
> Mandriva will be reflected in XP and vice versa. I'm looking for a way to
> do this in Pan. Has anyone else had success with this?
I haven't actually done this, but it sounds like another job for 
PAN_HOME. On the Linux side, there are numerous ways to start pan 
conveniently with PAN_HOME set to a particular value.  E.g. on my 
system, if I wanted my pan database on my vfat format USB drive, I could 
set PAN_HOME to /media/SEA_DISC/pan. Actually, I just tried at a bash 
shell prompt:
PAN_HOME=/media/SEA_DISC/pan pan
and it worked like a charm. I provided a news server, visited a group, 
read one article and exited. A pan directory had been created on the 
drive and it contained the usual things. Now I'm sure that you can do 
something similar in Windows (maybe you would set PAN_HOME to something 
like E:\pan). Now the only question is whether Windows pan will tolerate 
the Unix text file format.  And when you exit from Windows pan, maybe it 
will write DOS/Windows format and the question will be whether the Linux 
version can handle that. Only way to find out is to try. I don't do 
Windows at home, so I cannot do the full test.
-- David