Re: [Pan-users] Re: How do you point Pan to use another directory?

[Ufuk YILDIRIM]

2008/6/26 Duncan <address@hidden>:
> "Ufuk YILDIRIM" <address@hidden> posted
> address@hidden, excerpted
> below, on  Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:23:49 +0300:
>
>> 1. Unable to save "H:\.pan2\groups\uk.rec.humour" Arg list too long Dont
>> know what exactly it is. It might be related to what I did earlier after
>> moving to new loacation: I wanted to download all the articles in the
>> said group. However, along the way, pan did stop downloading the
>> articles. I closed the pan, when there were still tasks (not downloading
>> for some reason). Whenever I run pan, it takes sometime compared to
>> before (though not that long).
>
> First, please set gmail to not post HTML when posting to this list, and
> preferably to any similar list.  There's a reason pan doesn't handle
> HTML, many consider it a security issue, and raw HTML just looks ugly.
> That said, you're not the first and won't be the last to do it; many
> don't even realize they are.
>
Sorry about that. I am having strange problem using my email client to
send messages to this list. As a result, I posted my message via web
browser, which I very rarely use. Hence I did not notice whether gmail
posts messages in HTML or plain text.

> Back on topic...  That error is likely an old and now probably stuck
> task.  You should see a tasks.nzb file, pan's method of storing its tasks
> to disk and a standard *.nzb format file, in the new location.  You
> should be able to edit it to point to the new location as appropriate.

At the moment, the tasks.nzb file is too small and it contains a line
or two, and that particular error disappeared [fingers-crossed].

> Thanks for mentioning these.  They'll certainly help the next time
> something like this comes up as I didn't have any unfinished tasks when I
> switched directories so didn't see this one.  As for the server file,
> when I moved directories it was to split pan into multiple instances,
> binary, text, and test.  Thus, I either manually edited that due to the
> split or setup servers from scratch for each instance, so didn't see a
> problem there either.  Now that I'm aware of them I can warn people about
> them the next time this comes up. =8^)
>
>> 2. Error setting spellchecker: aspell: No word lists can be found for
>> the language "en_US". Have no idea about this.
>
> IIRC that's set using the LANG environmental variable, but en_US is the
> likely default if it's unset.  Did you have spell-check working before?

I have been using pan for sometime now, but never encountered this
error before. Or even if I encountered the error I did not notice or
can't remember. I would prefer UK spelling but not really too bothered
about spelling option right now. Will look for a solution for this
later when I have more time.

> You mentioned uk.*, do you prefer en_GB (or whatever it is) for spelling
> or en_US, or ???  If you haven't, you'll need to install the correct
> dictionary.  I assume the dictionary is the same regardless of MS or *ix
> platform, but wasn't aware until now that the MS platforms port even had
> the option ported.
>
> Travis is one of the regulars here that runs pan on MSWindows.  It's
> likely he can better answer some of these questions, and there are a few
> others as well, that don't seem to reply as often as he does.
>
> --
> Duncan - List replies preferred.   No HTML msgs.
> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master --
> and if you use the program, he is your master."  Richard Stallman

Thanks again for the reply.