This is version 0.10.0 of PAN, a powerful and user-friendly USENET
newsreader for GNOME. The latest info and versions of Pan can always
be found at http://pan.rebelbase.com/.
REQUIREMENTS
Pan requires that you have installed gnome-libs 1.0.16 or higher. Most
Linux distributions already have these installed. If you just want the
minimum required to get Pan working, try http://www.gnome.org/start/,
which contains instructions and package installations for gnome-libs.
If you'd like to try the GNOME desktop as well, then perhaps you should
visit http://www.ximian.com/desktop/, which has a very nice installation
tool.
Note that once gnome-libs is installed, Pan can be used on non-GNOME
desktops such as KDE, WindowMaker, OpenStep, and so on.
Pan 0.9.3 and higher has the ability to display attached images and
html postings if the gtkhtml library is installed. See the Pan homepage
page for more information.
THE SALES PITCH
Pan is good for Reading News.
* Pan has earned the Good Newskeeping Seal of Approval and is the only
Unix newsreader to score 100% on the GNKSA evaluation.
* Basic newsreader features, such as reading and writing news,
threading articles, and replying via email, are supported.
* Articles can be sorted by author, date, subject, or the number
of unread children in the thread.
* Multiple connections are supported, so articles can be read
while binaries are downloading.
* Works well as an offline reader.
* Articles can be filtered by regular expression matching,
read/unread state, binary/text, etc.
* Pan is fast and can download and thread articles as quickly
as the bandwidth will let it.
* Posts can be queued until you want to go online, and can be
re-edited at any point before they're sent.
* Pan saves your posted messages in a folder for future reference.
* A flexible rules system allows you to delete, hide, download,
or notify you of, etc. articles that match a subject, or are
posted by a particular user, and so on.
* Groups can be filtered by regular expression matching
subscribed/new/all, etc.
* Pan has keyboard bindings for mouse-free newsreading.
Pan is good for Downloading Binaries.
* Attached images can be shown inline.
* Pan supports single-click decoding, opening, or saving
of binary messages.
* A task manager lets you re-order, cancel, and resubmit
download tasks.
* Multiple connections are supported, so many binaries can
be downloaded simultaneously.
* Multipart articles are automatically grouped together.
* Nonbinary, incomplete multipart, and previously-saved
messges can be filtered out of the article list.
* Pan understands both MIME and traditional uuencoded attachments.
The rest of the sales pitch is at <http://pan.rebelbase.com/features.html>.
UPGRADING
Upgrading typically requires that you do the exact same procedure as
in the INSTALL file.
We would recommend that if you run into any problems using this newer
version with your previous installation, that you remove the old
configuration files and data directories (config file is ~/.gnome/Pan
and the data dirs are typically in ~/.pan).
INSTALLATION
See the file 'INSTALL' for instructions.
HOW TO REPORT BUGS
See http://pan.rebelbase.com/bugreport.html to report bugs.
CONTACTING THE AUTHORS
When sending email, please put "pan" at the beginning of the
subject line, followed by what it is regarding pan (e.g., "pan
patch", "pan comment", "pan translation"). See the AUTHORS file
for contact information.
LINKS
Pan : http://pan.rebelbase.com/
GNU : http://www.gnu.org/
GNOME : http://www.gnome.org/
GTK+ : http://www.gtk.org/
Ximian : http://www.ximian.com/
