Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) writes: > > > It's Debian policy (afaik) that as little as possible should go into > > stable after release, and *definitely* as little as possible, if any, > > new upstream releases. > > > This is very wise but i'd expect as w

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) writes: > > [ Redirected to debian.user at Paul Seelig's insistence ] > Thanks a lot! :-) > Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Well, the current mc-3.5.17 is an *old* development version which > > has since long been superseded by some 31 following

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread James Troup
[ Redirected to debian.user at Paul Seelig's insistence ] Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No. New upstream versions do not go into stable without *very* > > good reason. > > Well, the current mc-3.5.17 is an *old* development version which > has since long been superseded by some 3

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Edwards) writes: > On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > > > Note that there is an *unofficial* Debian mc-4.0 binary provided by me > > available on the regular Midnight Commander FTP sites, which can be > > installed within the regular Debian package management. > >Pa

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Randy Edwards
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: > Note that there is an *unofficial* Debian mc-4.0 binary provided by me > available on the regular Midnight Commander FTP sites, which can be > installed within the regular Debian package management. Paul, for someone who is ignorant of the regular MC ftp sit

Re: mc problem - solved

1997-07-06 Thread Dima
>>Alex Yukhimets wrote: >How about: >$Mon=(Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec)[$mm-1] || bad_thing; >? I did, patch's below. I'd rather use an existing function if there was one -- must be a software engineer in me (типа внутренний шпион). -- Dimitri --- deb.origSun Jul 6

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes: > > In another interesting note, when I replace mc.ext from mc-4 source to > > /etc/mc/mc.ext, *.deb and *.tar.gz browsing is lot faster using > > mc_3.5.17-1_i386.deb:) If you are wondering why I didn't keep mc-4, I like > > to > > keep this system *.deb

Re: mc problem - solved

1997-07-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> Hi > > 1) Please disregard my previous posting with lots of Perl and stuff: > I was falling asleep when I posted that. I'm attaching a patch for > /usr/local/lib/mc/extfs/deb (or wherever it is on your box) below. > Note that the patch has Y2K bug, which leads me to > > 2) Is there a function

Re: mc problem - solved

1997-07-06 Thread Dima
As Lindsay pointed out, the patch in my previous post will break *.deb viewer for those who have tar-1.11. Be very afraid and do `dpkg -l tar` before applying the patch. :) (patch works for tar-1.12-1) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, David Puryear wrote: > > On 05-Jul-97 Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear) writes: > > > In your /etc/mc/mc.ext you should have these: > > > > # deb > > regex/\.deb$ > > Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/ > > View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c