Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 14:05:02 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >I am running Trixie. Should have made that clear before. > What I can't understand is MC would open and browse ZIP files and DEB files > but would not open PDF files. > At any rate the offending macro was in the mc.ext.ini files in

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 1:28 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote: /tmp/mc-frank/mcextELJ902: 11: @EXTHELPERSDIR@/doc.sh: not found It would help if someone were to show us the offending file, though I don't quite understand why there's something that appears to be either a shell script or a perl script in /tmp. Hh

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Greg Wooledge
> > > /tmp/mc-frank/mcextELJ902: 11: @EXTHELPERSDIR@/doc.sh: not found It would help if someone were to show us the offending file, though I don't quite understand why there's something that appears to be either a shell script or a perl script in /tmp. > > Hhmm, looks like it is looking for doc.s

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 11:21 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 1/31/25 9:42 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable.     Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some *.pdf

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 9:42 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable. Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some *.pdf will open it using okular as pdf-viewer. I ha

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 9:42 AM, Hans wrote: Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable. Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some *.pdf will open it using okular as pdf-viewer. /tmp

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Hans
Hi Frank, looks ok here with MC on debian/stable. >Upon further investigation, the problem seems restricted to PDF > files. MC will open ZIP and DEB files. If I run MC in an xterm I see this: Enter some *.pdf will open it using okular as pdf-viewer. > > /tmp/mc-frank/mcextELJ902: 11: @EXTHE

Re: mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
On 1/31/25 7:51 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: Noticed this morning that  Midnight Commander doesn't open zip or pdf files aaymore. It appears that a variable @EXTDIRHELPER@ is not being set for some reason. The variable is used in the mc.ext.ini files. Can anyone help ? Upon further inve

mc problem with EXTDIRHELPER variable

2025-01-31 Thread Frank McCormick
Noticed this morning that Midnight Commander doesn't open zip or pdf files aaymore. It appears that a variable @EXTDIRHELPER@ is not being set for some reason. The variable is used in the mc.ext.ini files. Can anyone help ? Thanks -- Frank McCormick