> On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 09:06:55 +0100 (BST) > "Stephen Rowles" <step...@rowles.org.uk> wrote: > >> > right.. having installed midnight commander (never used it before) >> > the following command should work: >> > >> > /bin/bash -c "su - -c mc" > > ah! it was the need for a second "-c" that had escaped me > > mc is a very useful tool as it will run on a system without X and give > a semi-gui file manager (and more). > > I first became acquainted with its parent, Norton Commander, a long > time ago when I bought a 32 meg hard card* that came with dos and a > trial copy of Norton Commander installed on it. > > I found I preferred NC to Xtree which I'd been using till then and when > I converted from OS/2 to Linux and found there was a clone of NC I > started using that for all my file management stuff. >
Ah... now Xtree I remember from my very very early days using my dads Tandy 1000 (HX model I think certainly looked like the picture of an HX on wikipedia) we had the extra memory module to take us to the full 640k and an external 3.5inch floppy drive to compliment the 5.25 inch drive in the side of it :). I taught myself to program in BASIC on that machine, and learned to touch type as it was one of the few interesting programs it had for a young boy to play with! -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------