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Requirements
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- GNOME edition requirements
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Features
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- Midnight Commander editions
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Where to get more information
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- The Midnight Commander
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+ GNU Midnight Commander
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Mini-docs
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- Obtaining the Midnight Commander
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+ Obtaining GNU Midnight Commander
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Reporting problems.
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-This version of the Midnight Commander comes with two interfaces: a
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-graphical one for the GNOME desktop (http://www.gnome.org/) and a text
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-mode interface (the same old user interface we have had for a long
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-time).
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+GNU Midnight Commander (also referred to as MC) is a user shell with
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+text-mode full-screen interface. It can be run on the OS console,
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+in xterm and other terminal emulators.
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+
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+GNU Midnight Commander allows you to manage files while making most of
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+you screen and giving you a clear representation of the filesystem, yet
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+it's simple enough to be run over a telnet or ssh session.
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-Most of the engine is shared between both versions, but they come with
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-radically different interfaces: the GNOME version is aimed to be a
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-simple to use tool for novice users.
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Requirements
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To compile the GNU Midnight Commander you need at least to have a copy
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of the GLib library, available at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/.
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-GNOME edition requirements
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-Optionally, if you want to compile the GNOME edition, you need to
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-install the GNOME libraries and its dependencies.
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-The GNOME libraries are available at
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-ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/gnome-libs/
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Features
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-This is version 4 of the Midnight Commander, a free Norton Commander
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-clone with many useful features. The Midnight Commander comes with
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-mouse support on xterms and optionally on the Linux console.
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+GNU Midnight Commander was conceived as a free close of John Socha's
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+Norton Commander (TM). It also takes the best from more recent software
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+with similar interfaces. GNU Midnight Commander comes with mouse support
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+on xterm and optionally on the Linux console.
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-The Midnight Commander is a directory browsing tool which bears a
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-certain remote resemblance to John Socha's Norton Commander for DOS.
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-It is feature packed:
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+Some features are specific to the POSIX environment MC runs on, some are
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+familiar to the users of similar software for other operating system.
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+The features include:
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o Built in Virtual File System: manipulate remote file systems
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- through the FTP protocol or Midnight Commander's own mcfs
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- protocol. Browse tar, compressed tar, RPM, zip, cpio, lha and
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- rar files with a single click.
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+ through the FTP and SMB protocols or over secure shell, browse
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+ tar, compressed tar, RPM, zip, cpio, lha and rar archives with
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+ a single click.
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- o All of the Midnight Commander operations work with the
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+ o All of GNU Midnight Commander operations work with the
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virtual file system, enabling you to do complex tasks.
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- o Mouse support on the Linux console and under X11's xterms.
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+ o Mouse support on the Linux console and under xterm and rxvt.
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- o Learn Keys: The Midnight Commander may be configured at run
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+ o Learn Keys: GNU Midnight Commander may be configured at run
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time to support any kind of input keys for a given terminal,
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making its operation even on the most weird terminals a
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breeze.
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locations (including FTP sites).
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o Command completion: By pressing Alt-Tab in any place where a
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- filename or an executable are expected, the Midnight
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- Commander will complete for you the name. If you quickly
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- press Alt-Tab twice you can get a list box with the possible
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- completions available.
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+ filename or an executable are expected, GNU Midnight Commander
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+ will complete the name for you. If you press Alt-Tab the second
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+ time you can get a list box with all possible completions.
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o Subshell support: Run your commands by a real shell
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- interpreter. The Midnight Commander interacts with bash,
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+ interpreter. GNU Midnight Commander interacts with bash,
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tcsh and zsh to provide you with all of the facilities
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- available in your shell.
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+ available in your preferred shell.
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- o Find file command can now search for the file contents.
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+ o Find file command can search for the file contents.
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o Background operations allows you to copy or move files from
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any virtual file system while you do other tasks (i.e., you
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system. This is a low level file recovery function that will
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recover files deleted by any program on Linux.
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- Please note that the undelete file system can only recover
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- 12 file system blocks if the file was deleted with a kernel
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- in the 2.0.x series. The 2.1.x series have fixed this and
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- you can recover all of the file contents there.
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o External panelization: You can run any arbitrary external
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- command and the Midnight Commander will display the output
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+ command and GNU Midnight Commander will display the output
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generated as a file listing that can be manipulated as a
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regular directory.
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with the context dependent actions is used to format man
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pages on the fly, coloring mail messages and more.
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-This list of features pertains to the terminal edition of the Midnight
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-Commander. The GNOME edition's feature set is slightly different, for
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-example, it does not include subshell support.
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Where to get more information:
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@@ -121,15 +101,15 @@ directions and announcements; if you want to subscribe, visit
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http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc/
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-There is a WWW page for the Midnight Commander at
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+There is a WWW page for GNU Midnight Commander at
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-http://www.gnome.org/mc/
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+http://www.gnome.org/projects/mc/
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-The Midnight Commander:
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+GNU Midnight Commander:
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-----------------------
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-The Midnight Commander is released under the GNU General Public
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+GNU Midnight Commander is released under the GNU General Public
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License version 2.0 or any later version. A copy of the file is
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included with this distribution package.
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@@ -176,10 +156,10 @@ You can access the whole documentation online with the F1 key,
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although it's not as nice as the groff printed manual page :-)
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-Where you may obtain the Midnight Commander
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+Where you may obtain GNU Midnight Commander
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-You can download the latest version of the Midnight Commander at
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+You can download the latest version of GNU Midnight Commander at
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ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/mc/
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@@ -192,8 +172,8 @@ mc-devel@gnome.org.
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Include the version of the program, the operating system that you are
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using, the compiler and compiler flags used to compile the program (if
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-you know them), what kind of distribution you are using (if a
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-GNU/Linux system).
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+you know them), what kind of distribution you are using (if a GNU/Linux
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+system).
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If the program crashed and produces a core dump, please provide a
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stack trace of the program.
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@@ -202,14 +182,3 @@ You can do this by running dbx or gdb like this:
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gdb mc core
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(gdb) where
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-Addendum
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-No new features are being added to the GNOME edition of the Midnight
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-Commander anymore. It is just in maintenance and bug fixing stage.
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-The reason for this is that the current design of the Midnight
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-Commander is not suited well at all for a graphical version with
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-multiple windows and asynchronous file operations. A new file manager
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-is being written for the GNOME project.
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Pavel Roskin