Re: Re: midnight commander

2023-11-13 Thread mmcclain . 46
Under buster my prompt is mike@RPI4b2:~> on the CL whether it be a text VT or an xterm. My prompt in mc is the same whether launched from the CL or via the desktop menu. Under bookworm root's prompt whether on the CL or in mc is root@RPI4b2:~> . Under bookworm my prompt is mike@RPI4b3:~> on the

Re: Re: midnight commander

2023-11-13 Thread Mike McClain

Re: Re: midnight commander

2023-11-13 Thread Mike McClain

Re: midnight commander

2023-11-12 Thread David
On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 at 04:33, wrote: > I'm running bookworm on a RaspberryPi 4b. > mike@rpi4b3:~> uname -a > Linux MikesPI 6.1.0-rpi4-rpi-v8 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 1:6.1.54-1+rpt2 > (2023-10-05) aarch64 GNU/Linux > There are a couple of things I don't understand and am hoping one of > y

Re: midnight commander editor

2020-07-28 Thread mick crane
On 2020-07-28 12:39, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Ma, 28 iul 20, 13:42:07, Reco wrote: Hi. On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:30AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > hello, > using mc to select files to edit mc editor doesn't recognize vim > syntax colouring so have to press enter to ignore and get the

Re: midnight commander editor

2020-07-28 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 28 iul 20, 13:42:07, Reco wrote: > Hi. > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:30AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > > hello, > > using mc to select files to edit mc editor doesn't recognize vim > > syntax colouring so have to press enter to ignore and get the error > > messages in terminal. >

Re: midnight commander editor

2020-07-28 Thread Reco
Hi. On Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 11:00:30AM +0100, mick crane wrote: > hello, > using mc to select files to edit mc editor doesn't recognize vim syntax > colouring so have to press enter to ignore and get the error messages in > terminal. > Any way to have mc recognize colo, syntax options in

Re: midnight commander and ssh keys

2011-12-24 Thread hvw59601
Greg Donoghue wrote: On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:28:21AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi, how can I use mc with ssh rssa/dsa keys? regards Once you've generated your keys and installed them, mc will use them to connect. In mc press F9 and select "Shell link..." Good info. Thanks

Re: midnight commander and ssh keys

2011-12-24 Thread Greg Donoghue
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:28:21AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote: >Hi, >how can I use mc with ssh rssa/dsa keys? >regards Once you've generated your keys and installed them, mc will use them to connect. In mc press F9 and select "Shell link..." -- Greg Donoghue g...@gmx.us -- To U

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Sven Joachim wrote: On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a sol

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-09 Thread Frank McCormick
On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 17:19:19 +1000 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 09/06/11 04:43, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: > > > >> On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-09 09:19 +0200, Scott Ferguson wrote: > As I don't have any problems - does that mean this only affects Wheezy > builds? It only affects Wheezy installs, more precisely systems with perl 5.12 or later. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a su

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-09 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/06/11 04:43, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: > >> On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> >>> >>> Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when >>> trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my cas

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/06/11 01:58, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when > trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case > for two months now. Is there a solution ? > > > No problems here Squeeze with Iceweasel and Icedove backpor

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 20:43:41 +0200 Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: > > > On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > >> > >> Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when > >> trying to look inside deb files ? This has b

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-08 19:51 +0200, Brian wrote: > On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > >> >> Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when >> trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case >> for two months now. Is there a solution ?

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Am Mittwoch, 8. Juni 2011 schrieb Brian: > On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when > > trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case > > for two months now. Is there a solution ? >

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Brian
On Wed 08 Jun 2011 at 11:58:42 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when > trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case > for two months now. Is there a solution ? It's the time to use ar -x. Or be patient. htt

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2011-06-08 17:58 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote: > Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when > trying to look inside deb files ? No, you're not alone. > This has been going on , in my case > for two months now. Is there a solution ? See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/

Re: Midnight commander parse errors

2011-06-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Frank McCormick wrote: Am I the only one still seeing Midnight Commander parse errors when trying to look inside deb files ? This has been going on , in my case for two months now. Is there a solution ? You're certainly not the only one. I have not found a solution: it does not seem to be de

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 08:09:15PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters > so the display is wierd. I use mc -sd in mrxvt with my non-locales box (LANG=C).

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread jim barnes
On Sunday 01 March 2009 06:09:15 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters > so the display is wierd. Try starting with the -a option. From man mc: OPTIONS -a,

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Frank
On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 08:15 +, Bob Cox wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 20:09:15 -0500, Frank McCormick > (fmccorm...@videotron.ca) wrote: > > > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Michael M. Moore
Frank McCormick wrote: What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters so the display is wierd. Midnight Commander works great with URxvt, the unicode version of rxvt. The Debian package I have inst

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-02 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 20:09:15 -0500, Frank McCormick (fmccorm...@videotron.ca) wrote: > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters > so the display is wierd. Midnight Commander works perfect

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-01 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 01 Mar 2009 20:43:12 -0500 Daryl Styrk wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all > > the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters > > so the display is wierd. > > > > > > > > > > I've never us

Re: Midnight commander

2009-03-01 Thread Daryl Styrk
Frank McCormick wrote: What's the best terminal for running Midnight Commander...it seems all the ones I try ( rxvt, aterm) can't handle the acsii drawing characters so the display is wierd. I've never used Midnight Commander, but here is my notes on how I got the BBS's to display much bet

Re: Midnight Commander / Etch

2007-09-15 Thread Debian
Hi even after upgrading I had the same error, I discovered that something was wrong in /home/user/.mc , in fact I have copied them from a previous backup, I have deleted everything and MC works again Thanks for your help Raymond Pál Csányi a écrit : 2007/9/15, Debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

2006-10-26 Thread Avinash Sultanpur
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:28:09PM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: > > Hi, > > When using MC in a text mode (console) the Ctrl-J copies the highlighted > filename into a command line. However, this doesn't work in Gnome > Terminal, it seems that the keys combination is captured and interpreted > as

Re: Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

2006-10-26 Thread Brent Clark
Eeltje wrote: It works as you described in KDE. So your problem is really a Gnome problem, not a X problem. I can not help you with Gnome... Hi Maybe you or someone else could help me with this. I dont use kde or gnome. But why is it that when I start a shell (rxvt or xterm or Eterm), (and t

Re: Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

2006-10-26 Thread Eeltje
Tadeusz Bak schreef: > Hi, > > When using MC in a text mode (console) the Ctrl-J copies the highlighted > filename into a command line. However, this doesn't work in Gnome > Terminal, it seems that the keys combination is captured and interpreted > as a new line. Is it possible to disable such be

Re: Midnight Commander does not support UTF8 ?

2006-02-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-02-17 09:57:59, schrieb Žá?ek Kryštof: > I have recently switched my SID to UTF8 locales. It was as easy as running > dpkg-reconfigure localeconf (great !). > > Everything works fine as before. The only problem I have is the Midnight > Commander displaying nonsense - the columns are not

Re: Midnight Commander does not support UTF8 ?

2006-02-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Žáček Kryštof wrote: > I have recently switched my SID to UTF8 locales. It was as easy as running > dpkg-reconfigure localeconf (great !). > > Everything works fine as before. The only problem I have is the Midnight > Commander displaying nonsense - the columns are not correctly alligned, > charac

Re: Midnight Commander: A full desktop, or application

2004-01-09 Thread Brian Potkin
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:23:58AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Charles Muller wrote: > > >A recent post to the list recommended Midnight Commander on the > >desktop. I went to their site to read the explanation and look at some > >screen shots. From what I could see, it is not clear whether MC > >c

Re: Midnight Commander: A full desktop, or application

2004-01-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:23:58AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > mc (Midnight Commander) is a text-based file manager; as such, it > certainly would not replace a gui desktop environment such as Gnome. A > gui version of mc is gmc (Gnome Midnight Commander), but again, it's > just a file manager, n

Re: Midnight Commander: A full desktop, or application

2004-01-09 Thread Charles Muller
Kent West wrote: Charles Muller wrote: A recent post to the list recommended Midnight Commander What's the address of "their site"? I'm curious to see what you saw. http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/ mc (Midnight Commander) is a text-based file manager; as such, it certainly would not replace a gui d

Re: Midnight Commander: A full desktop, or application

2004-01-08 Thread Kent West
Charles Muller wrote: A recent post to the list recommended Midnight Commander on the desktop. I went to their site to read the explanation and look at some screen shots. From what I could see, it is not clear whether MC completely *replaces* Gnome as one's desktop, or if it more like a sophistica

Re: Midnight commander won't start on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Russ Pitman
Robert Black wrote: > I just installed Woody and trying to get everything set up, I can't get > Midnight commander to start. Having used Slink this is the only thing I > know to use to get the tweaks set. Anyone run into this problem? I see > it in the /bin directory. Is there anything else comp

Re: Midnight commander won't start on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 01:57:50PM -0500, Robert Black wrote: > I just installed Woody and trying to get everything set up, I can't get > Midnight commander to start. What does "can't get [it] to start" mean? When you type "mc" and press the Enter key, what happens? Hey, why isn't mc in /usr/b

Re: Midnight commander

2001-04-01 Thread shaulka
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 01:13:32PM -0500, Brian Nelson wrote: > Then don't delete gnome... Gnome and kde will co-exist just fine. > Try installing the mc (midnight commander) package. Hopefully this will make it a permanent resident on your system. > > On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:00:52PM -070

Re: Midnight commander

2001-04-01 Thread Brian Nelson
Then don't delete gnome... Gnome and kde will co-exist just fine. On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:00:52PM -0700, paul taylor wrote: > I am new to debian. I originally got potato with gnome and no have KDE2 > which is my window of choice. > >From what I can see if I delete gnome I no longer have midni

Re: Midnight commander

2001-04-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
You are probably referring to gmc (the 'g' stands for gnome), which requires the gnome libraries. The text mc will still work, and there should be some equivalent tools in kde. On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 12:00:52PM -0700, paul taylor wrote: > I am new to debian. I originally got potato with gnome an

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-07 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > > > Oops, typo in the email! I was trying /#undel:hdb1 but to no avail. > > Just tried it again, no such file or directory. > > mc -V says the undelfs is not compiled in. I have no idea why, the > object file is compiled during build. Mayb

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-07 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > Oops, typo in the email! I was trying /#undel:hdb1 but to no avail. > Just tried it again, no such file or directory. mc -V says the undelfs is not compiled in. I have no idea why, the object file is compiled during build. Maybe because it is build in a chroot. I'll

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > * Adam C Powell, IV wrote: > > Hi, > > > So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something > > promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, > > and tried to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or > > directory. > > It's c

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-05 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* Adam C Powell, IV wrote: Hi, > So I looked through /var/lib/dpkg/available and found something > promising-looking in mc. I installed, ran, read the instructions, > and tried to cd /#debug:hdb1 but it kept saying no such file or > directory. It's cd /#undel:hdb1 Why do you think it is #debu

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-04 Thread Adam C Powell IV
mike polniak wrote: > Adam C Powell IV wrote: > > > > Can anyone help me to properly use mc or any other undelete function? > > Try> apt-get install recover > Then go to www.linux-mag.com and read about recover and undeleting files > in the August 2000 issue. Oh, excellent, cool, amazing!

Re: Midnight commander undelete?

2001-03-04 Thread mike polniak
> > Can anyone help me to properly use mc or any other undelete function? Try> apt-get install recover Then go to www.linux-mag.com and read about recover and undeleting files in the August 2000 issue. -- LINUX~~nobody owns it~~everybody can use it~~anybody can improve it ~~~

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
I have mc installed on a mouse-less system with no problems. On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 06:50:57AM -0600, David Densmore wrote: > No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? libgpmg is a required > package for mc, and if it is not present dpkg complains and won't install > mc. Since mc operates

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Martin Bialasinski
* "David" == David Densmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David> No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? You can't, unless you recompile the package. Once it is compiled with gmp support, the lib has to be present. David> I guess I could go ahead and install libgpmg even though there David

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread David Wright
Quoting David Densmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? libgpmg is a required > package for mc, and if it is not present dpkg complains and won't install > mc. Since mc operates perfectly well without a mouse I can't imagine > why this is so, but there it is.

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread David Densmore
No, I mean how do I INSTALL mc without a mouse? libgpmg is a required package for mc, and if it is not present dpkg complains and won't install mc. Since mc operates perfectly well without a mouse I can't imagine why this is so, but there it is. I guess I could go ahead and install libgpmg even

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Henry White
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:28:54AM -0600, David Densmore wrote: > When I installed Midnight Commander I recall that dpkg setup required > a mouse to be present even thought mc can be operated without one. > > Now I'm about to install Debian on a machine which will have no mouse > and want to

Re: Midnight Commander without mouse?

2000-03-17 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> When I installed Midnight Commander I recall that dpkg setup required > a mouse to be present even thought mc can be operated without one. > > Now I'm about to install Debian on a machine which will have no mouse > and want to use mc. What can I do? > basically i see no problem with using mc w

Re: Midnight Commander hanging

1998-12-22 Thread wb2oyc
> >I have seen a previous posting but no fix for Midnight Commander >hanging. > I'd bet its trying to find your DNS. Been there, done that. If you have a nameserver id'd in your /etc/resolv.conf if its not really accessible when you launch MC it'll do that every time. paul

Re: Midnight Commander

1998-10-19 Thread Alan Tam
Thank you all very much. I found the mc files and installed it by dpkg according to your path. Thanks alot. Alan Christian Lavoie wrote: > Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME version) 4.1.35 .deb files? > > > Christian Lavoie > UIN: 947212 > E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- >

Re: Midnight Commander

1998-10-17 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Alan Tam wrote: > Hi all; > > Can someone please tell me where I can get the Midnight > Commander package ? > The package is called mc and it is in the utils directory. Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet

Re: Midnight Commander

1998-10-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, > Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME version) 4.1.35 .deb files? > The package is called gmc ii gmc 4.1.35-4 Midnight Commander - A powerful file manager I took it from slink and installed by hand (I mean dpkg -i ...) It may be in GNOME Debain pakages, but

RE: Midnight Commander

1998-10-15 Thread Hank Fay
MC is installable under dselect. Run dselect and select it. Hank -Original Message- From: Christian Lavoie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 14, 1998 5:11 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Midnight Commander Where can one find the Midnight Commander (GNOME v

Re: Midnight Commander

1997-07-22 Thread OLH
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Re: Midnight Commander

1997-07-22 Thread OLH
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Re: Midnight Commander

1997-07-22 Thread OLH
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Re: Midnight Commander

1997-05-23 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Rowan" == Rowan Deppeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rowan> Hi Adalberto, You need to install the libgpm1 library. It Rowan> is a seperate package in the 'Optional Misc' section using Rowan> dselect. So, why doesn't `mc` require libgpm1? Someone should file a 'bug' on it, may

Re: Midnight Commander

1997-05-23 Thread Rowan Deppeler
Hi Adalberto, You need to install the libgpm1 library. It is a seperate package in the 'Optional Misc' section using dselect. Rowan - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Rowan Deppeler System administrator Cybernex Networking http://www.cybernex.net.au vk3vw / vk3rcr -