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Lloyd Parsons
Jul 30, 2015, 6:35:32 PM7/30/15
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I'm playing around with a Chromebook with Linux installed in a chroot.
I'm using pan for the usenet client.
Reading a bit I see that it supposedly is available for OSX, but I cannot
find a download. Anyone got a pointer??
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Lloyd
I'm using pan for the usenet client.
Reading a bit I see that it supposedly is available for OSX, but I cannot
find a download. Anyone got a pointer??
--
Lloyd
Jolly Roger
Jul 30, 2015, 9:22:10 PM7/30/15
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<http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/>
If that's beyond your skill level, then you might be able to find a
compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
available).
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Lloyd Parsons
Jul 30, 2015, 9:28:54 PM7/30/15
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On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 01:22:07 +0000, Jolly Roger wrote:
> On 2015-07-30, Lloyd Parsons <lloy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm playing around with a Chromebook with Linux installed in a chroot.
>> I'm using pan for the usenet client.
>>
>> Reading a bit I see that it supposedly is available for OSX, but I
>> cannot find a download. Anyone got a pointer??
>
> It looks like you can download the source here and build it yourself:
>
> <http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/>
>
> If that's beyond your skill level, then you might be able to find a
> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
> available).
I was afraid that was the answer I'd get. Time to get some oil for my
> On 2015-07-30, Lloyd Parsons <lloy...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm playing around with a Chromebook with Linux installed in a chroot.
>> I'm using pan for the usenet client.
>>
>> Reading a bit I see that it supposedly is available for OSX, but I
>> cannot find a download. Anyone got a pointer??
>
> It looks like you can download the source here and build it yourself:
>
> <http://pan.rebelbase.com/download/>
>
> If that's beyond your skill level, then you might be able to find a
> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
> available).
very rusty skills.
thanks
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Lloyd
Leonard Blaisdell
Jul 30, 2015, 10:04:09 PM7/30/15
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In article <d1vn5h...@mid.individual.net>, Lloyd Parsons
Sure, but I might be out of date. I used to use pan on Linux. Assuming
you have free XCode installed on your Mac, download the trusted source
and uncompress which should be automatic these days. Read the README
and INSTALL files and follow directions. Usually some form of
./configure, make, make install will do the trick. I see it's a GNOME
thingy now. Don't know nothin' about that. I was a fvwm2 guy at the end
of my Linux days. I may have you mistaken for someone else, because the
guy I must have mistaken you for would know all this.
leo
you have free XCode installed on your Mac, download the trusted source
and uncompress which should be automatic these days. Read the README
and INSTALL files and follow directions. Usually some form of
./configure, make, make install will do the trick. I see it's a GNOME
thingy now. Don't know nothin' about that. I was a fvwm2 guy at the end
of my Linux days. I may have you mistaken for someone else, because the
guy I must have mistaken you for would know all this.
leo
Lloyd Parsons
Jul 30, 2015, 10:16:51 PM7/30/15
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But it has been so long since I've fiddled with anything other than just
a few apps on OSX and Windows that it will take me a bit to figure it all
out.
thanks
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Lloyd
Leonard Blaisdell
Jul 31, 2015, 1:21:50 AM7/31/15
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In article <d2044g...@mid.individual.net>, Lloyd Parsons
Yeah well, I just thought I'd do the config, make, make install dance
without doing anything else, and I can't even configure pan source
starting now and running back to 2003. That'd be about seven attempts.
The newest wants a updated intltool which I'm unwilling to install.
Have you thought about slrn? I can guarantee that newsreader for modern
Macs with XCode installed. It will be my goto when the GUI apps
completely crap out.
leo
without doing anything else, and I can't even configure pan source
starting now and running back to 2003. That'd be about seven attempts.
The newest wants a updated intltool which I'm unwilling to install.
Have you thought about slrn? I can guarantee that newsreader for modern
Macs with XCode installed. It will be my goto when the GUI apps
completely crap out.
leo
Maurizio Loreti
Jul 31, 2015, 3:57:59 AM7/31/15
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you.
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Ant
Jul 31, 2015, 6:07:20 AM7/31/15
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...
v10.2.8's X11, but it looks like it doesn't anymore with today's
versions. :(
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> If that's beyond your skill level, then you might be able to find a
> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
> available).
I remember Fink used to have Pan package when I used it in Mac OS X
> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
> available).
v10.2.8's X11, but it looks like it doesn't anymore with today's
versions. :(
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"What is that?" "Some kind of insect?" "It's an ant." "Girl, you needed
an exterminator. She had ants on her face." "Well, these aren't your
garden-variety dumpster ants." "And they aren't ... to decomp." "Why are
they in her stomach?" "La hormiga culona--leaf cutter ants. It's a
Colombian dish." "Are you saying that people eat them?" "Fried." "Okay,
so we are looking for a club that serves fried ants." --CSI: Miami
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Ant
Jul 31, 2015, 6:08:30 AM7/31/15
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too. However, Pan is really old. I rarely even use it in my Debian
(oldstable)! Maybe there is a better binary newsgroup client software?
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Ant
Jul 31, 2015, 6:09:21 AM7/31/15
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...
> slrn is a damn sight better than any GUI USENET app.
I use Tin, but it doesn't do well with binary newsgroups without using
*.nzb files. How does slrn do with them?
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"Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of
men." --Mortimer J. Adler
> slrn is a damn sight better than any GUI USENET app.
I use Tin, but it doesn't do well with binary newsgroups without using
*.nzb files. How does slrn do with them?
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men." --Mortimer J. Adler
Lloyd Parsons
Jul 31, 2015, 8:20:08 AM7/31/15
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This all started when I got a Pixel Chromebook and stuck Linux on it in
one of the tabs. Looked for a newsreader and pan was there, installing
it was dead simple and it meets my needs.
So I started thinking I'd like to have a single usenet client on all my
machines instead of being in one or the other client as I switched
machines. Ultimately I'd like a cloud based data location so that no
matter which machine I am on, pan would be looking for that data vice
local data.
So far, for all of its warts, google groups works but I'm not fond of it.
Oh well... This may not happen until the weather goes south and I can't
get out for some golf!!
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Lloyd
Lloyd Parsons
Jul 31, 2015, 2:17:18 PM7/31/15
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On Thu, 30 Jul 2015 22:21:46 -0700, Leonard Blaisdell wrote:
like pan came around. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Lloyd
Jolly Roger
Jul 31, 2015, 4:14:16 PM7/31/15
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all.
Jamie Kahn Genet
Jul 31, 2015, 4:34:00 PM7/31/15
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Ant <a...@zimage.comANT> wrote:
> ...
>> If that's beyond your skill level, then you might be able to find a
>> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
>> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
>> available).
>
> I remember Fink used to have Pan package when I used it in Mac OS X
> v10.2.8's X11, but it looks like it doesn't anymore with today's versions. :(
Fink is where I got Pan when I tried it out back in OS X 10.3 days. Worked
> ...
>> If that's beyond your skill level, then you might be able to find a
>> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
>> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
>> available).
>
> I remember Fink used to have Pan package when I used it in Mac OS X
> v10.2.8's X11, but it looks like it doesn't anymore with today's versions. :(
well, but I still preferred MacSOUP's GUI, or tin on the command line.
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Ant
Aug 1, 2015, 6:52:55 AM8/1/15
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>>> If that's beyond your skill level, then you might be able to find a
>>> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
>>> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
>>> available).
>>
>> I remember Fink used to have Pan package when I used it in Mac OS X
>> v10.2.8's X11, but it looks like it doesn't anymore with today's versions. :(
>
> Fink is where I got Pan when I tried it out back in OS X 10.3 days. Worked
> well, but I still preferred MacSOUP's GUI, or tin on the command line.
I use Pan mostly for binaries. Tin is great for reading.
>>> compiled package online somewhere or perhaps use an OS X package manager
>>> like Homebrew, MacPorts, and the like instead (assuming they have it
>>> available).
>>
>> I remember Fink used to have Pan package when I used it in Mac OS X
>> v10.2.8's X11, but it looks like it doesn't anymore with today's versions. :(
>
> Fink is where I got Pan when I tried it out back in OS X 10.3 days. Worked
> well, but I still preferred MacSOUP's GUI, or tin on the command line.
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