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Date:      Mon, 27 Sep 1999 11:34:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com>
To:        Sebestyen Zoltan <szoli@netvisor.hu>
Cc:        Michael Rothenberg <rothenberg@automationonline.com>, FreeBSD <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Midnight commander is...???
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9909271133120.27357-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9909271948540.32535-100000@linux.intranet.netvisor.hu>

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On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Sebestyen Zoltan wrote:

> On Mon, 27 Sep 1999, Michael Rothenberg wrote:
> 
> > Midnight Commander is...???
> .. Midnight Commander. People are people, and mc is a GNU rewrite of
> Norton Commander's functionality. 
> A question: why has the mc executable's name been changed to 'midc'?

mc was causing a name conflict on... can't remember what OS, or if it was
a popular addin package.  But that is the reason, there was already an mc
command that was causing problems.



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