Re: [Cooker] MC

[J. Greenlees]

Felix Miata wrote:

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/

let's face a simple fact, if you do not have the entire directory structure memorised, then mc or similar is something that speeds up the process of navigating in console to
"
> 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,
"
and is going to be used by a lot of people, not just those vocal about it. ( ratio is frequently 10:1 where 10 say nothing for every 1 says something )