From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Dec 6 20:25:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA13155 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:25:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ogurok.com (ogurok.com [208.212.72.37]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA13150 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:25:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oleg@ogurok.com) Received: from testol (ppp14.pfmc.net [204.254.227.16]) by ogurok.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA29411; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:32:03 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from oleg@ogurok.com) Message-ID: <009901be219a$bce5a780$ba9bd0d1@testol.globix.net> From: "Oleg Ogurok" To: "Kris Kirby" , "Jason C. Wells" Cc: Subject: Re: Can I run my useful linux utilities? Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 23:33:27 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3155.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org You can use midnight commander, it's in ports somewhere. The command to run it is "midc" instead of "mc" in Linux. -Oleg. -----Original Message----- From: Kris Kirby To: Jason C. Wells Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sunday, December 06, 1998 1:33 PM Subject: Re: Can I run my useful linux utilities? >[moved to -chat] > >Jason C. Wells wrote: >> >Red Hat Linux had "Midnight Commander" - a linux version of the DOS >> >"Norton Commander"... I can't imagine using DOS or linux without >> >that! >> >> I use unix tools to do administration on my machine. I find them far more >> flexible and powerful than even the Norton Commander that I loved in DOS >> land. > >In DOS, my favorite was List. But it had limits: no network drives. So >that put CDROMs out of the question. Quite annoying. In BSD, I favor fd. >Has most if not all of the functions and benefits of list without the >limits. > >-- >Kris Kirby >UAH Mail UAH CS >Home WWW >------------------------------------------- >TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message