From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 26 18:44:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from alpha.pit.adelphia.net (alpha.pit.adelphia.net [24.48.44.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5E8714DFF for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 18:44:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from evstiounin@adelphia.net) Received: from evstiouninadelphia (surf15-162.pit.adelphia.net [24.48.53.162]) by alpha.pit.adelphia.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id VAA04410; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:43:37 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <004901bf5014$71d7cf80$a2353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net> From: "Mikhail Evstiounin" To: "Dan Nelson" , "Darren Wiebe" Cc: "aunty" , "Duke Normandin" <01031149@3web.net>, "freebsd-questions" Subject: Re: Midnight Commander Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 21:45:29 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I believe, "mc" stands for media copy command - at least HP-UX 11.00 has it. -----Original Message----- From: Dan Nelson To: Darren Wiebe Cc: aunty ; Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>; freebsd-questions Date: Sunday, December 26, 1999 5:36 PM Subject: Re: Midnight Commander >In the last episode (Dec 25), Darren Wiebe said: >> > On Fri, Dec 24, 1999 at 02:01:37PM -0800, Duke Normandin wrote: >> > > Pkg_add mc??????? installed w/o a hitch, but I something went >> > > wrong, cuz I can't man mc or do odie@/# mc. What else needs doing >> > > before I can get this beast fired up? TIA >> > >> > Simple: train your fingers to go 'midc' instead of 'mc' when using >> > FreeBSD systems. Apparently we have something else called mc >> > already so the name had to be changed in the FreeBSD port :-( >> >> You could just add a link "man ln" to point mc to midc. It may not >> be as correct but it's what I originally did. It took me a bit to >> catch on when I switched over from linux too. Which program is >> called mc?? I have not used it. > >I think it's becuase 'mc' is too close to 'mv'. I have midc symlinked >to mc, and I accidentally start up mc at least twice a week because I >slip when I type 'mv'. > >-- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@emsphone.com > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message