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Contents:
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Intro text
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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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Mini-docs
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Obtaining the Midnight Commander
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Reporting problems.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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o Find file command can now search inside the contents of
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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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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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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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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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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 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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Midnight Commander editions:
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The Midnight Commander may be compiled into three different editions:
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the text mode edition, the Tk edition and the XView edition. Please
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note that currently the only supported edition is the text mode
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edition. The Tk and XView editions are included with the tar file but
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are not finished and thus not supported.
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Where to get more information:
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There is a mailing list for discussion on enhancing the program, future
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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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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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If you have comments, you can send them to me:
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miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
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or if it would benefit more people, to the mailing list:
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mc@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
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Help develop and enhance free software.
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Mini-documentation:
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o Use the F-Keys for invoking the commands in the function key bar.
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If your terminal doesn't support F-keys, you can use the <ESC digit>
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sequence to invoke the corresponding F-digit key.
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o Tab changes the current panel.
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o All input lines have emacs-like key-bindings (command history is
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accessed through the M-p and M-n keys).
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o The panels accept C-n, C-p for browsing the panel (like in emacs).
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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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machines with the mcfs file system.
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o Please read the manual page.
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o Read the file src/TODO for the current projects.
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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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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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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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Reporting problems
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Please, send a detailed description of your problem to the
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mc-bugs@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx address.
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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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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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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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