Re: [Pan-users] Quick question on using Pan on two computers

[Jeffrey Needle]

On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 06:46 +0000, Duncan wrote:
> Jeffrey Needle posted on Mon, 18 Jul 2011 22:19:05 -0700 as excerpted:
> 
> > I have a desktop computer and a netbook, both running Ubuntu Linux
> > 10.04.  I have Pan installed on both systems.
> > 
> > Is there a way for me to copy Pan's settings from my desktop to my
> > netbook so that I don't have to set it all up again?  I also want Pan to
> > keep up between machines as to messages already read, etc.
> 
> pan's data dir is ~/.pan2/ by default. (You can change that by setting 
> and exporting the PAN_HOME environmental variable such that it appears in 
> pan's environment.  I used that, combined with some launcher scripts, to 
> setup a number of separate pan instances, each of which has its own 
> config, cache, etc, with symlinks to a common scorefile, accels.txt, 
> etc.)  Everything's stored in that dir.

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So if I just copy that directory to my netbook, I should have everything
up to date on both computers?  This would be, by far, the easier way for
me to get this done.

Many thanks!