Graham Lawrence posted on Mon, 07 Nov 2011 10:08:12 -0800 as excerpted: > In fact the effect of the \s is that Pan does nothing at all. Which > might make you ask... then what was all that business about Pan in > perpetual download mode? The full truth is probably unrecoverable, but > contains at least the following elements:- > Quoting, in all its infinite varieties, and with shells within shells, > confuse me. Like that old limerick, I'm never quite sure "who does > what, and with which, and to whom"; > Early in this struggle, I checked that the nzb itself was good by > starting it in Pan in gui mode and, seeing the files appearing in > Thunar's window, closed Pan, blissfully unaware that its Task Manager > still lurked in the shadows, loaded for Goodfellas; > I removed the downloaded files and ran that infamous pan command line, > replete with superfluous \s &s and if; > The command did one thing right, it started Pan and its Task Manager > pounced.
LOL! I don't know about your end, but your description of it was certainly worth the trouble of all that explanation from my end. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
