escaping message

[Haines Brown <brownh hartford-hwp com>]

Please understand that I'm new to mc, so please excuse a very
elementary question ;-).

I apparently pressed F3 View when a directory was selected and got an
error message:

      File: ..       
       Cannot view: not a regular file

Fine, but how do I escape this message and return to normal operation?
For example, to display a new directory in the window? I tried
everything I could think of without luck. I'm stuck with the message
permanently displayed in one window.

Haines Brown