Re: mc Digest, Vol 107, Issue 3

[chris glur <crglur gmail com>]

Thanks, I'll try SlakARM.
I've analysed why many people HATE mc.
The sports-man/soldier-type who train to do the task by reflex,
like your dog catches a ball, want to go-straight-to-the-goal,
by writing a mesg to the-little-man-in-the-box.
The don't want to see the 'clutter' of multiple fileNames and
have to make decisions, during the game.
They have a complete mental-model of how to reach the goal.

On 4/2/13, Theodore Kilgore <kilgota banach math auburn edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, chris glur wrote:
>
> > Can someone confirm that mc is available for ARM:rPi ?
> > I've often wondered why Debian doesn't acknowledge that
> > gpm is the most essential utility and mc is the 2nd most.
>
> Hi, Chris,
>
> ArmedSlack (Slackware for ARM, aka Slackarm) does contain a package for
> mc. I can also confirm that, as of a couple of months ago,
> slackarm-current is running well enough on the RPi.
>
> In Debian, you might possibly be able to get mc by the routine of running
> sudo apt-get install mc. In fact, I think that I vaguely recall doing that
> successfully during my first attempt to get the RPi up and running, back
> when I first got one of them. As to why Debian seems to bypass mc as part
> of the basic distribution and seems to want to make people go and get it
> instead, I have no idea. I have often wondered about that obvious
> omission, myself.
>
> Theodore Kilgore