Re: [Pan-users] Re: Two instances of PAN-a couple of glitches

[Rick Barry]

Duncan (and other list readers who are interested),

First of all, most everything worked out quite well. I transferred the giga 
account to the newly made directory and after all the other steps including 
logging in and out it launched fine, but had lost its "memory" ie. subscribed 
groups were gone and had to be resubscribed after downloading the group list. 
Server settings and posting profiles were fine, even all the messages in the 
subscribed groups remained, just not their state, (read, unread etc). The 
subscribed groups and message "memory" are not retained when I close PAN, all 
groups are lost and I was unable to get PAN to connect after a couple of 
lauches to get the list of groups again.

The other perplexing glitch: I open a terminal and type pan.giga, it launches 
but then the process appears to "own" the terminal. No other commands, though 
they can be typed in, will work. There is no prompt after launching the first 
instance of PAN. Closing the terminal window also closes the instance of PAN I 
have open at the moment. If I close PAN without closing the terminal window, I 
then get my prompt back and can launch the other instance of PAN or whatever 
else I want to do in the terminal. Perhaps an idiosyncrasy of Ubuntu? Or should 
I have done something else in .bashrc? There was no PATH command in the file, 
so I added it as suggested in your instructional, (PATH="$PATH:/home/rick/bin")

Thanks for any suggestions.