Re: IBM Systems Mag sez "All Hail the Midnight Commander!"

[Theodore Kilgore <kilgota auburn edu>]

Same for me. I started to use Linux when Win95 came out. One of the 
reasons was that I hated the Win95 file manager, having learned to use the 
Norton Commander on DOS. I also had been running Norton DOS and had 
constructed a number of *.bat files to streamline my work, especially 
handling the writing of LaTeX files, and Win95 would not let them run 
because they depended on the enhanced features of the N-DOS command.com. 
And Win95 would not let me use the N-DOS command.com and provided no 
acceptable substitute for its functionality. It seemed that Win95 was 
designed to punish me for everything I had learned about how to make a 
computer work for me instead of forcing me to work for it. So when I heard 
about the existence of Linux I downloaded it and installed it, found out 
that it met my needs, and have never looked back.

The only thing that messes me up nowadays is that the format of mc.ext was 
changed at some point and a lot of stuff in it quit working. I either have 
to use an old-style one that I kept, or else I have to edit by hand the 
new ones that come out. Otherwise, it seems that xdg-open simply does not 
work in the terminal for a lot of stuff, seems to think I am in an X 
environment when I am not, wants to run an X-dependent application, and 
can't.

But I have never found any adequate substitute for MC.

Theodore Kilgore

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018, James Wonnacott wrote:

> I've only ever used CLI since I started with Linux in mid 90s and MC is 
> always the first thing I install on a new system. Many thanks to all!
>
> James
>
>
> On 30/11/2018 02:56, solarflow99 via mc wrote:
> > I have to say i'm also very grateful for it. Having mc installed is a 
> > necessity, i'm really surprised its use isn't even more widespread 
> > among CLI users.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 6:13 PM Nate Bargmann <n0nb n0nb us 
> > <mailto:n0nb n0nb us>> wrote:
> >
> >     I'll take this opportunity to thank all of the contributors to this
> >     wonderful program that I have been using since 1996 with my first
> >     foray
> >     into Slackware Linux.  I recall that its package description said
> >     something about Norton Commander, but I never saw it or used it
> >     back in
> >     my MS/PC-DOS days.
> >
> >     Midnight Commander is the first package I install on a new system
> >     if it
> >     isn't installed already.  I recommend it to everyone interested in
> >     trying Linux.  It is such a versatile program that over time I'll have
> >     five or six instances of mc running in various virtual terminals.
> >     Sometimes I'll find I started it twice in the same vt!
> >
> >     Thanks again.
> >
> >     - Nate
> >
> >     -- 
> >
> >     "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all
> >     possible worlds.  The pessimist fears this is true."
> >
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