Re: Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-07 Thread Tim
Robert Black wrote: When I was teaching myself Linux about nine years ago and X was still having growing pains Midnight Commander probably meant the difference between learning linux and giving up as most work was done from the command line. I realized today that I never said thanks back

Re: Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-07 Thread tbroderick
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 02:46:08AM +1000, Tim wrote: I have to agree. I don't even bother with GUIs and MC is my main tool ... and it should be. I think it's important to have a good system maintenace tool independant of X. Put my name down to the lists of thanks. Learning how to use

Re: Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-07 Thread kilgota
On Mon, 7 May 2007, Tim wrote: Robert Black wrote: When I was teaching myself Linux about nine years ago and X was still having growing pains Midnight Commander probably meant the difference between learning linux and giving up as most work was done from the command line. I realized today

Re: Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-04 Thread Marco Ciampa
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:10:43PM -0300, tarcisio praciano-pereira wrote: Dear Robert When you find the author, add my name with exactly the same words as your's and the same time in the boat, it was 1996 I started and mc was essential for doing everything I could not do in Unix

Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-03 Thread Robert Black
When I was teaching myself Linux about nine years ago and X was still having growing pains Midnight Commander probably meant the difference between learning linux and giving up as most work was done from the command line. I realized today that I never said thanks back then when it probably

Re: Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-03 Thread Donofrio, Lewis
03 07:14:13 2007 Subject: Thank you to the author of MC When I was teaching myself Linux about nine years ago and X was still having growing pains Midnight Commander probably meant the difference between learning linux and giving up as most work was done from the command line. I realized today

Re: Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-03 Thread Felix Miata
On 2007/05/03 12:27 (GMT-0400) Donofrio, Lewis apparently typed: Robert Black wrote: When I was teaching myself Linux about nine years ago and X was still having growing pains Midnight Commander probably meant the difference between learning linux and giving up as most work was done from

Re: Thank you to the author of MC

2007-05-03 Thread tarcisio praciano-pereira
Dear Robert When you find the author, add my name with exactly the same words as your's and the same time in the boat, it was 1996 I started and mc was essential for doing everything I could not do in Unix environment. Even today I do not install Linux without mc. Add my name. Tarcisio