It would appear that on May 13, Alan Corey did say:
> FreeBSD used to have midc set up driving a script that drove mc after
> doing other stuff, so I used that.
>
> Spent over a day using mc -d and no crashes yet. An unexpected benefit
> is that now I can copy from mc's viewer instead of having
>> > alias mc="mc -d"
>> > alias mcm=/usr/bin/mc
>>
>> Or instead of mcm, 'mc' (quotes included) for an unaliased mc command.
>> Works both in bash and tcsh.
>
> I didn't realize that quoting a command disables any defined alias...
>
> It's a good thing to know, but for my purposes mcm is easier to