From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 26 14:35:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74A9A14C57 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 14:35:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id QAA79952; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:35:19 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 16:35:19 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Darren Wiebe Cc: aunty , Duke Normandin <01031149@3web.net>, freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Midnight Commander Message-ID: <19991226163519.B79675@dan.emsphone.com> References: <001c01bf4e5a$e9914c60$c39ec5d1@webserver> <19991225103859.A17780@comcen.com.au> <38655D1B.C46AEAE8@heartland.ab.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38655D1B.C46AEAE8@heartland.ab.ca>; from "Darren Wiebe" on Sat Dec 25 17:11:07 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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