Graham Lawrence <gl00637@...> writes:
>
> Duncan, I'm using Pan 0.133, and thank you for the very detailed
> response. I hope you just pasted most of it and didn't have to type
> it all, because since I ran
>
> strace -feopen pan 2>&1 | grep -v 'icons\|cursors' | grep /home/g > pan.debug
>
> I think I know what the problem is, and it has nothing to do with Pan.
> strace was very consistent in its output. After the initial preamble
> for each task, it generated nothing but this pattern
>
> [pid 5641]
open("/home/g/.pan2/article-cache/part20of78.2Wn&pF6dRhmMn7DI5Klr@...",
> O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
>
> and it does this for every part in every task. There is nothing in
> /home/g/.pan2/article-cache/ whose name even begins with p.
>
> My neighbor recommended newsgroups to me and offered to share his
> account with me if I would split the cost with him. The first time I
> used it all was well, except it posted a warning to the effect that
> such downloads could only be made to a single computer, which I
> dismissed at the time as an aberration, I was only downloading to one
> computer. This time around is my second use, and now the penny has
> dropped. My neighbor's computer is the single computer referred to,
> and it has blocked downloading to mine.
>
> I am very sorry to have wasted your time on this.
>
<snip>
Speaking only for myself, I can say that Duncan definitely did not waste his
time. That strace tutorial is going in my 'how to do stuff I could never
remember without a cheat-sheet' file ;-)
Once again, Duncan has taught me to do things for which I previously had only
'nodding knowledge'. Thanks Duncan.
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