Re: [Pan-users] Pan 0.13.4 and 0.13.90 - can they coexist?

[Charles Kerr]

On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:24:24PM +0000, Brian Morrison wrote:
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> On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 22:12:25 +0000 in
> address@hidden Brian Morrison
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> > On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 19:03:49 -0800 in
> > address@hidden Charles Kerr
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> > > The file formats haven't changed since 0.13.4, so you should be able
> > > to run both versions with the same PAN_HOME directory.  If you
> > > really want to be safe, you can always set PAN_HOME to something
> > > besides~/.pan when running the beta version though.
> > 
> > OK, now running 0.13.90 and it seems fine, however maybe I've missed
> > it but how do I make scoring persistent? Or is that feature not
> > implemented yet? Every time I change groups all my scoring seems to
> > disappear and I have to recreate the rules again.
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> No, it's OK, I had missed something in drawing up the scoring criterion
> and then expected the Score file to be under .pan/data whereas I've just
> discovered it is in ~/News/Pan
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> Any reason for this being in a different place, compatibility with slrn
> maybe?

Yes, ~/News/Score seems to be the closest to a canonical location for slrn.

A second reason is that it's more open to hand-tweaking than Pan's other
files, and so should be in a more visible location than a dotfile directory.

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cheers,
Charles