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

[Tim Johnson]

* Jack Woehr via mc  [181128 15:41]:
> http://ibmsystemsmag.com/blogs/open-your-i/november-2018/all-hail-the-midnight-commander/
> 
> Regards, Jack Woehr
  When I switched from Windows NT to Linux around 1999 I had been
  using Xtree and XtreeGold for years. MC was a natural transition.

  I have always used it with the internal editor and view options
  unchecked - thus vim as the default editor. 

  Long live MC!

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

[Doug Minett via mc]

I have been using mc since 1998 or so - on linux and osx. Couldn’t live without 
it. Thanks to the developers for their great work.
doug.

> On Jan 3, 2019, at 6:24 PM, Voytek Eymont  wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:10:22 +0100
>> "Yury V. Zaytsev"  wrote:
> 
>>> Congratulations! Always nice to hear about people still using mc.
> 
> when I was setting my first ever Red Hat server many moons ago, struggling
> with stuff, Rod "Metric" suggested to use MC - probably one of the best PC
> advice I ever got, don't set a machine without mc, that's for sure
> 
> 
> thanks, mc!
> 
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Re: IBM Systems Mag sez 'All Hail the Midnight Commander!'

[Voytek Eymont]

> On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:10:22 +0100
> "Yury V. Zaytsev"  wrote:

>> Congratulations! Always nice to hear about people still using mc.

when I was setting my first ever Red Hat server many moons ago, struggling
with stuff, Rod "Metric" suggested to use MC - probably one of the best PC
advice I ever got, don't set a machine without mc, that's for sure


thanks, mc!

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

[arne via mc]

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:10:22 +0100
"Yury V. Zaytsev"  wrote:

> Hi Jack,
> 
> Congratulations! Always nice to hear about people still using mc.
> 

i have minimal 4 midnight commanders open in terminals, 24/24.

mcedit is my main editor.

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

[A.J. Bonnema]

On 11/29/18 8:10 AM, Yury V. Zaytsev wrote:
Now only if IBM’s love for Open Source went as far as fixing me up 
with a part-time job to keep Andrew from being the only developer 
actually writing some code from time to time, struggling to keep the 
project more alive than dead over the past years... ;-)


I really love mc and I would not want to miss it for anything.

Kind regards, Guus Bonnema.

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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.
-- 
Evolution as taught in public schools is religion, not science.

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks!

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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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possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."

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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.

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

[Joerg Thuemmler]

Am 30.11.2018 um 02:56 schrieb Nate Bargmann:

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




couldn't say it better...
I used Norton Commander and in his time it plays the same role. All the 
early Windows freaks played around with their file explorers and I was 
three times faster to change the config.sys... In 90 I used an east 
german clone of BSD III with an app named "rnc" and when I changed to 
Sinix (a SysVR4 Unix derivate) in 91 I even programmed a "lightweight" 
nc from scratch for my admin purposes (a bloody simple thing). I was 
surprised (and ashamed for my own elaborate) when I changed to Linux 99 
and saw mc!


Since then I use mcedit as my standard programming editor.

So I'm *very* thankful for your work!

regards

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

[James Wonnacott]

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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possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."

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

[solarflow99 via mc]

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
>
> --
>
> "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
> possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."
>
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Re: IBM Systems Mag sez "All Hail the Midnight Commander!"

[Nate Bargmann]

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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possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."

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

[Yury V. Zaytsev]

Hi Jack,

Congratulations! Always nice to hear about people still using mc.

Now only if IBM’s love for Open Source went as far as fixing me up with a 
part-time job to keep Andrew from being the only developer actually writing 
some code from time to time, struggling to keep the project more alive than 
dead over the past years... ;-)

Anyways, if anyone is wondering, we are still breathing, and the next release 
is planned for Christmas/New Year or something like that, in any case, as soon 
as I get a vacation.

Sent from my iPad

> On 29. Nov 2018, at 01:33, Jack Woehr via mc  wrote:
> 
> http://ibmsystemsmag.com/blogs/open-your-i/november-2018/all-hail-the-midnight-commander/
> 
> Regards, Jack Woehr
> 
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