Re: How to prevent *.tar.gz copy to /tmp in MC

[Bjorn Eriksson <mdeans algonet se>]

On Tue, 15 May 2001, Gunter Berzler wrote:

> Having tried in vain to cope with an MC behavior that I had not been used 
> before changing from SuSE-Linux 6.1 to Debian 2.2r2. Since that change-over 
> I've noticed that MC writes a temporary mirror image of any *.gz file that 
> is marked in file manager to /tmp. Such files eventually clog my 
> tmp-directory unless I erase them from there, because MC does _not_ do that 
> automatically upon termination (as I would have expected).
> This phenomenon does not occur with the SuSE setup.

 What version of mc? Works fine here on my Debian box, mc 4.5.42:

% mc
<I open tomsrtbt-1.7.343.tar.gz and mcview a file>
% ls -l /tmp
total 2040
-rw-------    1 bjorn    bjorn     2083328 May 16 14:03 sfsi7rnVT
% exit
% ls -l /tmp
total 0

> Another - yet not so important - matter concerns the fact that MC does not 
> start in color mode unless parameter -c is added at command line. Is there 
> a specific entry I could make in /etc/mc/mc.ini that would automate that?
> This is my present (dafault) entry concerning colors.
> [Colors]
> color_terminals=linux,xterm-debian,screen,xterm-color

 Works fine here, what $TERM are you using? (Why not do a "alias mc='mc
-c'"? Or, better, modify and use the alias-script from the manpage)


//Björnen.