From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Jul 5 14:08:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA07722 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 14:08:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA07699 for ; Sun, 5 Jul 1998 14:08:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA24029; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 06:21:44 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980706062142.09447@welearn.com.au> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 06:21:42 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Midnight Commander Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We're seeing a few common favourites among the top tens. It might be helpful to hear a bit about how people are using them. Midnight Commander is something that has as many uses as there are people using it. It's great for poking around directories, copying and moving files, and you've still got a command prompt there all the time. I use it a lot for reading documents. Formatted documents like man pages come up really nicely when you hit F3 on them. That's handy when snooping inside a gzipped file like a FreeBSD package. Recently I discovered how easy it makes FTP. I like the normal FTP most of the time because it's quick and simple, but with Midnight Commander you can browse and tag files on the remote system and then shoot them across to the chosen local directory with a single keystroke. There's a nasty trick in the new version: previously the command to start it was 'mc' but they changed that to 'midc' recently. And no, you've never needed linux emulation to run it. Just install from the package, type 'midc' and go for it! When you want to get out press F10 (or Esc 0 if your function keys don't work). And if you start exploring and get into something you regret, pressing Esc twice quickly usually backs you out, and of course F1 is Help. BTW, has anyone noticed that it's always easy to find out how to start something but you have to dig around for ages to work out how to exit? Few doccos remember to tell us that right up front where we need it. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message