[Pan-users] Re: we're at the root of my problem -- no config.xml file

[lenny bruce]

At 11:13 AM -0700 9/16/02, Charles Kerr wrote:

> > I have no config.xml file... Fink
> didn't install one: bad
> > package-management.
> >
> > could someone send me a nice config.xml file that I could
> modify?
> >
> > I think sans 10 is pan's internal default
> > and a config file could override that
>
> Fink doesn't install one; Pan generates it automatically.
>
> What version of Pan are you running that doesn't have a config.xml
> file?
> I'd be very surprised if it's not
> there.

Fink is a debian-style package manager fronting dpkg and apt-get

from a specially-adjusted archive of sources and binaries

to do FreeBSD-type ports for Mac OS X and Darwin in XFree86's XDarwin

since Mac OS X is a special hybrid of NeXTStep/OpenStep/FreeBSD/OpenBSD

http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/pan

pan

Graphical newsreader

Installed:  0.12.1-1
Unstable:       None
Stable:             None
Binary:             0.12.1-1

Maintainer: Max Horn <address@hidden> 

some of these Fink packages are better configured than others

I've found sometimes the programs are correctly compiled

but the package maintainer blows installing the prefs.

I find this happens as an accidental side-effect

because the package maintainer necessarily tests their package manually

and they have a working pref file from their many manual test-installs

and don't realize when their package doesn't install one

in these cases

* sometimes I find a perfectly good pref not installed

  either in /sw/share/{package} or /sw/share/doc

* sometimes there's no pref anywhere

      + and the program creates a new pref file on the first run

      + and the program limps along partially but never creating a pref file

      + and the program freaks out because there's no pref file

in this package's case... there's no pref to be found anywhere.

Pan actually does run the first time

and it creates some files and folders on the first run

~/.pan/data

~/.pan/data/cache

~/.pan/data/{server nickname}

~/.pan/data/folders

~/.pan/data/folders_unsub.dat

~/.pan/data/folders_unsub.idx

~/.pan/data/profiles.xml

but still does not create a config.xml file

and then it refuses to run after this point

often complaining of many different things

but always missing font fallback "Sans 10"

when it fails to find any font set up for it

anyway... please...

could someone please send me a config.xml file

so I can edit it and make Pan useable with it?

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lenny bruce                        I am not a comedian,
address@hidden      I am Lenny Bruce.