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Contents:
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Requirements
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Features
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Where to get more information
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GNU Midnight Commander
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Mini-docs
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Obtaining GNU Midnight Commander
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Reporting problems.
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GNU Midnight Commander (also referred to as MC) is a user shell with
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text-mode full-screen interface. It can be run on the OS console,
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in xterm and other terminal emulators.
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GNU Midnight Commander allows you to manage files while making most of
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you screen and giving you a clear representation of the filesystem, yet
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it's simple enough to be run over a telnet or ssh session.
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Requirements
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To compile the GNU Midnight Commander you need at least to have a copy
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of the GLib library, available at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v1.2/
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Use only glib 1.2.x - newer and older versions are not supported!
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Features
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GNU Midnight Commander was conceived as a free close of John Socha's
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Norton Commander (TM). It also takes the best from more recent software
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with similar interfaces. GNU Midnight Commander comes with mouse support
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on xterm and optionally on the Linux console.
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Some features are specific to the POSIX environment MC runs on, some are
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familiar to the users of similar software for other operating system.
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The features include:
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o Built in Virtual File System: manipulate remote file systems
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through the FTP and SMB protocols or over secure shell, browse
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tar, compressed tar, RPM, zip, cpio, lha and rar archives with
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a single click.
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o All of GNU Midnight Commander operations work with the
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virtual file system, enabling you to do complex tasks.
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o Mouse support on the Linux console and under xterm and rxvt.
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o Learn Keys: GNU Midnight Commander may be configured at run
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time to support any kind of input keys for a given terminal,
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making its operation even on the most weird terminals a
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breeze.
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o Text and hex editors are available for you to use.
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o Hotlist allows you to keep a list of common visited
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locations (including FTP sites).
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o Command completion: By pressing Alt-Tab in any place where a
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filename or an executable are expected, GNU Midnight Commander
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will complete the name for you. If you press Alt-Tab the second
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time you can get a list box with all possible completions.
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o Subshell support: Run your commands by a real shell
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interpreter. GNU Midnight Commander interacts with bash,
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tcsh and zsh to provide you with all of the facilities
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available in your preferred shell.
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o Find file command can search for the file contents.
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o Background operations allows you to copy or move files from
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any virtual file system while you do other tasks (i.e., you
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can do background FTP copies).
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o Proxy support with our ftpfs.
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o Linux file recovery: If you are using Linux, you can recover
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deleted files from an ext2fs partition with the undelete file
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system. This is a low level file recovery function that will
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recover files deleted by any program on Linux.
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o External panelization: You can run any arbitrary external
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command and GNU Midnight Commander will display the output
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generated as a file listing that can be manipulated as a
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regular directory.
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o Emacs like key bindings in all of our widgets.
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o Powerful context dependent actions are available.
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o Powerful built-in file viewer: The file viewer, together
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with the context dependent actions is used to format man
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pages on the fly, coloring mail messages and more.
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Where to get more information:
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There is a mailing list for discussion on enhancing the program, future
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directions and announcements; if you want to subscribe, visit
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http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc/
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There is a WWW page for GNU Midnight Commander at
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http://www.gnome.org/projects/mc/
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GNU Midnight Commander:
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GNU Midnight Commander is released under the GNU General Public
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License version 2.0 or any later version. A copy of the file is
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included with this distribution package.
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If you have comments, you can send them to the mailing list:
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mc@gnome.org
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If you have made a patch send it to the developers' mailing list:
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mc-devel@gnome.org
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Help develop and enhance free software.
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Mini-documentation:
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These are hints for the text mode edition:
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o Use the F-Keys for invoking the commands in the function key bar.
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If your terminal doesn't support F-keys, you can use the <ESC digit>
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sequence to invoke the corresponding F-digit key.
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o Tab changes the current panel.
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o All input lines have emacs-like key-bindings (command history is
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accessed through the M-p and M-n keys).
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o The panels accept C-n, C-p for browsing the panel (like in Emacs).
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o M-Enter copies the currently selected file name to the input line.
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o M-Tab completes the current word (or tries to).
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o The Virtual File System is a cute addition to the project, you may
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browse in tar and compressed tar files as well as browsing remote
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machines with the mcfs file system.
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o Please read the manual page.
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o Read the file src/TODO for the current projects.
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You can access the whole documentation online with the F1 key,
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although it's not as nice as the groff printed manual page :-)
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Where you may obtain GNU Midnight Commander
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You can download the latest version of GNU Midnight Commander at
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ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/mc/
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Reporting problems
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Please, send a detailed description of your problem to
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mc-devel@gnome.org.
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Include the version of the program, the operating system that you are
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using, the compiler and compiler flags used to compile the program (if
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you know them), what kind of distribution you are using (if a GNU/Linux
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system).
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If the program crashed and produces a core dump, please provide a
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stack trace of the program.
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You can do this by running dbx or gdb like this:
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gdb mc core
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(gdb) where
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