Re: [Pan-devel] Progress of scores

[Charles Kerr]

On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 05:30:58PM -0600, BlueJAMC wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Mar 2003 15:14:03 -0800
> Charles Kerr <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > > Nevermind...I feel completely stupid now.  The reason ~/News/Score
> > > hasn't been created is because ~/News/ hadn't been created. 
> > > Pointing the location of the score file to a valid directory fixed
> > > the problem right up.
> > 
> > Hmmm, didn't Pan warn that it couldn't create the file?
> > It shouldn't've just silently failed.
> 
> An entry was created in the Status log, but Pan didn't give any
> indication via a message box or dialog.

I've fixed it now so that the directory is created if it doesn't
already exist.

> The other question/concern I have is why the score file isn't created in
> the same directory that holds all the other settings by default
> (~/.pan/data, as far as I can tell)?

Because ~/News/Score is the closest thing to a canonical location for
slrn's scorefile that I could find.  Ideally Pan and slrn will both be
able to handle one anothers' scorefiles.

cheers,
Charles