This is version Pan, a powerful and user-friendly USENET
newsreader for gtk2. The latest info and versions of Pan can always
be found at .
REQUIREMENTS
Pan requires three libraries:
* gtk2 2.2.0 or higher
* GNet 1.1.8 or higher
* libxml2 2.4.22 or higher
* libpcre 3.9 or higher
Most Linux distributions already have these; they can also be
downloaded from their home pages or via Ximian's free Gnome
desktop at .
THE SALES PITCH
Pan is good for Reading News.
* Pan is the only Unix newsreader to score 100% on the
Good Net-Keeping Seal of Approval newsreader evaluations.
* Pan has keyboard bindings for mouse-free newsreading.
* 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.
* Articles can be filtered by regular expression matching,
read/unread state, binary/text, etc.
* Works well as an offline reader.
* 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 is good for Downloading Binaries.
* Attached images can be shown inline.
* Pan can download and thread articles as quickly as bandwidth allows.
* uuencoded, mime, and yEnc attachments are all supported.
* 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 saved messges can be filtered
out of the article list.
The rest of the sales pitch is at .
UPGRADING
Upgrading typically requires that you do the exact same procedure as
in the INSTALL file.
INSTALLATION
See the file 'INSTALL' for instructions.
HOW TO REPORT BUGS
See http://pan.rebelbase.com/bugs/ 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/
GTK+ : http://www.gtk.org/
GNOME : http://www.gnome.org/
GNU : http://www.gnu.org/
Ximian : http://www.ximian.com/