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

2019-01-04 Thread 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

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

2019-01-04 Thread 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

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

2019-01-03 Thread 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

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

2019-01-03 Thread 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! ___ mc

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

2019-01-03 Thread 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

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

2018-11-30 Thread 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

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

2018-11-30 Thread 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

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

2018-11-30 Thread 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

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

2018-11-29 Thread 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

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

2018-11-29 Thread 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

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

2018-11-29 Thread 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

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

2018-11-29 Thread 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.

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

2018-11-28 Thread 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