On Saturday 2005-September-10 03:37, Dampz, Joachim wrote: > It is not possible to view tgz-archives bigger than 256MB. > I presume this is due to the fact that the /tmp directory has only > this size.
Correct. > Is it possible, with any parameter, to use another working direcory > than /tmp? I'm going to guess bash shell here. If you use a different shell you should also know how to look things up for yourself. With bash: export TMPDIR=$HOME/tmp TMPDIR should be a directory which 1. exists; and 2. in which you have rwx permissions. Have this set before you start mc. (You might want to make a shell alias for mc, or include this is a script to start mc.) -- mail to this address is discarded unless "/dev/rob0" or "not-spam" is in Subject: header _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc