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.\"NODE "Internal File Viewer"
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.SH "Internal File Viewer"
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The internal file viewer provides two display modes: ASCII and hex.
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-To toggle between modes, use the F4 key. If you have the GNU gzip
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-program installed, it will be used to automatically decompress the
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-files on demand.
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+To toggle between modes, use the F4 key.
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.PP
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The viewer will try to use the best method provided by your system or
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-the file type to display the information. The internal file viewer
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-will interpret some string sequences to set the bold and underline
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-attributes, thus making a pretty display of your files.
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+the file type to display the information.
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+Some character sequences, which appear most often in preformatted manual
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+pages, are displayed bold and underlined, thus making a pretty display
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+of your files.
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.PP
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When in hex mode, the search function accepts text in quotes and
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constant numbers. Text in quotes is matched exactly after removing
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@@ -2375,13 +2374,6 @@ with constants like this:
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.PP
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Note that 012 is an octal number. -1 is converted to 0xFF.
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.PP
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-Some internal details about the viewer: On systems that provide the
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-mmap(2) system call, the program maps the file instead of loading it;
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-if the system does not provide the mmap(2) system call or the file
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-matches an action that requires a filter, then the viewer will use
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-its growing buffers, thus loading only those parts of the file that
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-you actually access (this includes compressed files).
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-.PP
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Here is a listing of the actions associated with each key that the
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Midnight Commander handles in the internal file viewer.
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Roland Illig