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Contents:
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- Requirments
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- GNOME edition requirments
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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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@@ -21,8 +21,8 @@ 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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-Requirments
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+Requirements
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+------------
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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, this library is available in ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk.
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@@ -50,68 +50,72 @@ certain remote resemblance to John Socha's Norton Commander for DOS.
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It is feature packed:
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o Built in Virtual File System: manipulate remote files
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- systems through the ftp protocol or Midnight Commander's own
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- mcfs protocol. Browse tar, compressed tar files, rpm, zip,
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- cpio, lha and rar files with a single click.
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+ systems through the FTP protocol or Midnight Commander's own
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+ mcfs protocol. Browse tar, compressed tar files, RPM, zip,
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+ cpio, lha and rar files with a single click.
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- o All of the Midnight Commander operations work with the virtual
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- file system, enabling you to do complex tasks.
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+ o All of the 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 Learn Keys: The 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 wierd terminals a
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- breeze.
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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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o Text and hex editors are available for you to use.
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o Hotlist allows you to keep a list of common visited
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- locations (including ftp sites).
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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 Commander
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- will complete for you the name. If you quickly press Alt-Tab
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- twice you can get a listbox with the possible completions
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- available.
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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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o Subshell support: Run your commands by a real shell
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- interpreter. The Midnight Commander interacts with bash, tcsh
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- and zsh to provide you with all of the facilities available in
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- your shell.
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+ interpreter. The 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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o Find file command can now search inside the contents of
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- files.
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+ files.
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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 (ie, you can
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- do background ftp copies).
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+ any virtual file system while you do other tasks (i.e., you
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+ can do background FTP copies).
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o Proxy support with our ftpfs.
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o Linux file recovery: If you are using Linux system, you can
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- recover deleted files from an ext2fs partition with the
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- undelete file system. This is a low level file recovery
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- function that will recover files deleted by any program in
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- Linux.
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+ recover deleted files from an ext2fs partition with the
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+ undelete file system. This is a low level file recovery
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+ function that will recover files deleted by any program in
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+ 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 you
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- can recover all of the file contents there.
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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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- generated as a file listing that can be manipulated as a
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- regular directory.
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+ command and the 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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o Emacs like key bindings in all of our widgets.
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- o Powerfull context dependant actions are available.
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+ o Powerful context dependent actions are available.
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- o Powerfull built-in file viewer: The file viewer, together
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- with the context dependant actions is used to format man pages
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- on the fly, coloring mail messages and more.
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+ o Powerful built-in file viewer: The file viewer, together
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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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@@ -122,20 +126,20 @@ directions and announcements; if you want to subscribe, send mail to:
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majordomo@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
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-There is a WWW page for the Midnight Commander with the URL:
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-<http://mc.blackdown.org/mc/>.
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+There is a WWW page for the Midnight Commander at http://www.gnome.org/mc.
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The Midnight Commander:
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-The Midnight Commander is released under the GNU General Public License
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-version 2.0 or any later version. A copy of the file is included with
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-this distribution package.
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+The 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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-If you have comments, you can send them to me:
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+If you have comments, you can send them to us:
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-miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
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+miguel@nuclecu.unam.mx
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+federico@nuclecu.unam.mx
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or if it would benefit more people, to the mailing list:
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@@ -164,8 +168,8 @@ o M-Enter copies the currently selected file name to the input line.
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o M-Tab completes the current word (or tries to).
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-o The Virtual File System is a cute addition to the project, you may
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- browse in tar and compressed tar files as well as browsing remote
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+o The Virtual File System is a cute addition to the project, you may
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+ browse in tar and compressed tar files as well as browsing remote
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machines with the mcfs file system.
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o Please read the manual page.
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@@ -179,16 +183,13 @@ 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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-The software should be available by anonymous ftp at sunsite.unc.edu
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-in the directory /pub/Linux/utils/file and at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx
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-in the directory /linux/local.
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-The last alpha versions are available at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx in the
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-directory /linux/local/devel.
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+You can download the latest version of the Midnight Commander by
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+anonymous fTP at ftp.gnome.org in the directory /pub/GNOME/sources/mc.
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+Please note that this is a very busy site; use a mirror if possible.
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European mirrors of both version 3.1 and alpha versions are available
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-at sunsite.mff.cuni.cz in the directory /GNU/mc and at ftp.teuto.de
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-in the directory /lmb/mc.
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+at sunsite.mff.cuni.cz in the directory /GNU/mc and at ftp.teuto.de in
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+the directory /lmb/mc.
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Reporting problems
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+Addendum
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+--------
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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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Miguel de Icaza