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doc: update old FAQ from Trac and fix mistakes
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GNU Midnight Commander
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Frequently Asked Questions
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The newest version of this document is available at
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https://www.midnight-commander.org/browser/doc/FAQ
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* 1 Getting started
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+ 1.1 What is Midnight Commander?
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+ 1.2 Does it run on my machine?
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* 3 Mouse
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+ 3.1 How do I enable mouse support?
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+ 3.2 How do I cut and paste text with mouse?
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+ 3.3 How do I get the extension dependent pop-up menu to
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* 4 Display
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+ 4.1 Why do I keep getting "Terminal not powerful enough for
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+ 4.7 Where can I get xterm or rxvt?
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+ 4.8 I got colors working with MC but the other programs
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don't work at all anymore!
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+ 4.9 Why are there both terminfo and termcap? Wouldn't one
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database be enough?
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* 5 Graphical user interface
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+ 5.1 Xview, Tk and Gnome editions?
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+ 6.6 When I use Ctrl-O I don't get a subshell. How do I fix
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+ 6.7 Ctrl-O doesn't work at all. What happens?
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+ 6.8 Why I see lot of strange 'cd "printf ' lines into my
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.history file?
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6.9 I have a problem with Screen which makes using Midnight
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Commander problematic. I use Ctrl-O to disable panels. Output
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of previous commands, just a clear, screen is blanked.
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* 7 Virtual file systems
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can also be compiled under Cygwin on Windows.
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GNU Midnight Commander uses GNU Autoconf which should automatically
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configure it for every Unix clone. Following configurations have
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been tested in the past (this list is very old):
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* i386-*-linux1.x, 2.x
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* alpha-linux-linux2
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* sparc-linux-linux2.x
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* sparc64-linux-linux2.1
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* mips-sgi-irix5.x, 6.x
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* sparc-sun-sunos4.1
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* sparc-sun-solaris2.3, 2.4, 2.5
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* sparc-sun-netbsd1.0
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* hppa-hp-hpux9
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* hppa-hp-hpux7
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* m68k-apple-aux
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* unixware
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* mc88110-aviion-dgux5.4R2.01
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* i386-*-sco3.2v4.2
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* i386-*-sco3.2v5
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configure it for every Unix clone.
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1.3 Does it work with my terminal?
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To compile any edition you need to have glib >= 2.32 installed.
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It's available at https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/.
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It's available at https://download.gnome.org/sources/glib/ .
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If you want to use mouse on the Linux console you need the gpm daemon
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from https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/. You need nothing
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from https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/gpm/ . You need nothing
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1.6 Where can I get GNU Midnight Commander?
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The main site is https://midnight-commander.org .
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1.7 I cannot compile MC. What should I do?
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2.1 What does documentation mean with the C-?, M-? and F? keys?
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Learn keys feature of Midnight Commander instead. Press Esc 9 o k
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10.1 Who has written Midnight Commander?
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Midnight Commander was started by Miguel de Icaza and he is the
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Midnight Commander was started by Miguel de Icaza and was is the
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maintainer of the package. Other authors have joined the project
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Current list of active developers can be found here:
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