[Pan-users] Re: Message Search

[William Scalione]

Duncan wrote

>I'm not familiar with newsrover, but from your description, it must be
>using a server-side database.  Pan doesn't do anything like that yet, 
>and
>I know of no Linux apps that do.

>However... have you tried running newsrover in WINE?  Again, I don't >run
>WINE, but I've read great things about how it handles many MSWormOS >apps
>(including malware, so be careful!).  It might work, or not, but it's
>certainly worth a try, if you haven't.  Chances are it works as it's a
>third party app that I'd think not too likely to use the obscure and
>fancy parts of the MS APIs, but it's possible you'll have to tweak 
>things
>a bit.

Thanks, Duncan,

I tried News Rover with wine and it works once right after installing it 
but never again. Possibly needs some tweaks, but I have not figured out 
which ones yet.

Thanks again for the reply
Bill