Re: [Pan-users] Unable to upload binaries in Pan

[Dick Baker]

Andrew,

I have good news and bad news to report:

The good news is that your v. 0.140 works like a charm for binaries 
uploading in Win 7, and I think you're a genius!

The bad news is that I'd now like to pester you and your Pan 
colleagues with a few more more minor inquiries.  You see, I've been 
using my gray-haired old Xnews newsreader since the Windows 98 
(possibly Windows 95) days; it's primitive, but I know it 
inside-out.  Moving to a new newsreader presents new questions.

First, more good news.  I expanded your 0.140 version into a folder 
on my D: drive and it ran like a charm.  This tells me that Pan (like 
Xnews) is self-contained, without spreading .dlls and registry 
entries all over the C: drive like most Windows programs.  I love 
it!  Is there a way to put your profile folder within the Pan 
run/install directory so that the whole thing is independent of the 
C: drive and the Windows install system?

One of the first things I noticed in my attempts to post files to 
Usenet via Pan was the default "Thread attached replies" setting, to 
which many earlier users objected when posting attachments.  It 
appears that your build has defeated that option entirely -- 
right?  (It's still there, but whether I leave it selected or 
deselect it doesn't seem to matter.)

Pan's unwillingness to allow the user to reorder subscribed 
newsgroups is something else I noticed and about which others have 
complained as well.  This seems a like area for further 
attention.  But I've discovered a bizarre glitch in the subscribed 
group listing that makes me crazy.  See the attached snap1.jpg and 
snap2.jpg.  In snap1 you'll see an odd gap between the 1930s and 
1950s groups--that gap is actually occupied by the 1940s group, but 
it's blanked out.  If I click on it in Pan, it appears, but now a 
later group, alt.binaries.test, disappears (shown in snap2).  And if 
I go down and click on the gap where alt.binaries.test should be, the 
1940s gap reappears.  Utterly bizarre.  Have any of the rest of you 
run into this?



At 08:19 AM 11/10/2014, you wrote:
> Hi, are you using the Windows version of Pan 0.139?
>
> If you like I can send you my Windows build of Pan GIT (0.140) that
> includes the binary upload fixes I submitted recently.
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