Todd Lyons wrote:

> Damian Gatabria wrote on Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:12:26PM +0000 :

> > please forgive me for butting in here... but..
> > > > Midnight Commander 83 (really useful ?)

> > you mean 9.1 will NOT have mc???!
 
> I kind of agree with you, but we also have to look at the reality of the
> situation.  Anybody who knows enough and is comfortable enough using a
> commandline browser like mc will easily be able to:
>   urpmi.addmedia 91Main ftp://blah.blah.blah
>   urpmi --media 91Main mc

Not me. 
 
> Most of the people who are using Mandrake (and _not_ most of us) use
> Konqueror or Nautilus for their file browsing.  Those are the ones that
> (I guess) need to be accomodated.

Without FC/2 to take the place of Norton Commander, I would never have
made the transition from DOS to OS/2. Without MC to emulate the place of
NC or FC/2, I'll never make any progress with Linux. MC is ALWAYS how I
begin fixing up Mandrake installation errors, navigating around to edit
conf files inappropriately created by the installer, preventing X from
working, HPFS and network from being accessible,  not that I would use X
for anything but Mozilla if I couldn't use MC in an XTerm. No orthodox
file manager means I look elsewhere for an OS.
http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/
-- 
"There's nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough,
people will believe it."                        William James

 Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409

Felix Miata  ***  http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/


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