Re: IBM Systems Mag sez "All Hail the Midnight Commander!"

[Felix Miata via mc]

Theodore Kilgore composed on 2018-11-30 10:16 (UTC-0600):

> I have never found any adequate substitute for MC.

I never found MC necessary on Windows or OS/2. I use FileCommander on both. 
Until I found MC I
found Linux too hard to use compared to OS/2. MC is all I ever use when I need 
an FTP put in
Linux, and what I use for most archive extractions in Linux. In Linux GUI I 
have sessions of
both open virtually always. Some things are possible at all or better in one or 
the other.
Trying to use a PC with neither is a herculean handicap.
-- 
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Re: IBM Systems Mag sez "All Hail the Midnight Commander!"

[Theodore Kilgore]

Same for me. I started to use Linux when Win95 came out. One of the 
reasons was that I hated the Win95 file manager, having learned to use the 
Norton Commander on DOS. I also had been running Norton DOS and had 
constructed a number of *.bat files to streamline my work, especially 
handling the writing of LaTeX files, and Win95 would not let them run 
because they depended on the enhanced features of the N-DOS command.com. 
And Win95 would not let me use the N-DOS command.com and provided no 
acceptable substitute for its functionality. It seemed that Win95 was 
designed to punish me for everything I had learned about how to make a 
computer work for me instead of forcing me to work for it. So when I heard 
about the existence of Linux I downloaded it and installed it, found out 
that it met my needs, and have never looked back.


The only thing that messes me up nowadays is that the format of mc.ext was 
changed at some point and a lot of stuff in it quit working. I either have 
to use an old-style one that I kept, or else I have to edit by hand the 
new ones that come out. Otherwise, it seems that xdg-open simply does not 
work in the terminal for a lot of stuff, seems to think I am in an X 
environment when I am not, wants to run an X-dependent application, and 
can't.


But I have never found any adequate substitute for MC.

Theodore Kilgore

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, James Wonnacott wrote:

I've only ever used CLI since I started with Linux in mid 90s and MC is 
always the first thing I install on a new system. Many thanks to all!


James


On 30/11/2018 02:56, solarflow99 via mc wrote:
I have to say i'm also very grateful for it. Having mc installed is a 
necessity, i'm really surprised its use isn't even more widespread 
among CLI users.



On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 6:13 PM Nate Bargmann > wrote:


I'll take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors to this
wonderful program that I have been using since 1996 with my first
foray
into Slackware Linux.  I recall that its package description said
something about Norton Commander, but I never saw it or used it
back in
my MS/PC-DOS days.

Midnight Commander is the first package I install on a new system
if it
isn't installed already.  I recommend it to everyone interested in
trying Linux.  It is such a versatile program that over time I'll have
five or six instances of mc running in various virtual terminals.
Sometimes I'll find I started it twice in the same vt!

Thanks again.

- Nate

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Re: IBM Systems Mag sez "All Hail the Midnight Commander!"

[Jack Woehr via mc]

> > I'll take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors to this
> > wonderful program that I have been using since 1996
>

I used Norton Commander and in his time it plays the same role.
>
Since then I use mcedit as my standard programming editor.
>

Much like my experience!

I was a Norton Commander user on MS-DOS in the 1980's.

In addition to being my navigator on Windows, Mac, Linux, OpenBSD, Solaris,
and IBM i PASE, mc + jEdit has been my IDE where other IDEs fall short.

-- 
Jack Woehr
Absolute Performance, Inc.
12303 Airport Way, Suite 100
Broomfield, CO 80021

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