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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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this?
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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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+ 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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+ 7.1 How can I see the contents of a tar archive?
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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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1.3 Does it work with my terminal?
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running Windows, use Cygwin.
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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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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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extra to use mouse on xterm.
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If you do not want to use the S-Lang library you could try using
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1.6 Where can I get GNU Midnight Commander?
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- The main site is https://www. midnight-commander.org
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1.7 I cannot compile MC. What should I do?
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If you have compile problems in the VFS code, try disabling it by
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using "--disable-vfs" option.
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2.1 What does documentation mean with the C-?, M-? and F? keys?
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Up-to-date termcap and terminfo databases are available here:
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http://www.catb.org/~esr/terminfo/
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If you don't have permissions to edit terminal databases you can use
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Learn keys feature of Midnight Commander instead. Press Esc 9 o k
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(see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=558724)
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echo -e '\e[?1000h' && mc -x
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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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later:
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* Mauricio Plaza (early releases)
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* Janne Kukonlehto (joined Sep 27 1994)
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* Norbert Warmuth
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Alessandro Rubini has been specially helpful with debugging and
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enhancing of the mouse support. John E. Davis has made his S-Lang
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library available to us and answered many questions about it.
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Many people have contributed bug reports, feature suggestions and
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small code bits (alphabetical order):
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- Current list of active developers can be found here:
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- This page lists everbody who has provided a patch or
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10.2 Do I dare to use a development version?
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Yes, of course. Feel free to test:
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As we do our development in git, please do a git checkout
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the bug is fixed or the feature is added already.
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If this is not the case, feel free to add a ticket in our ticket system,
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To subscribe visit
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https://lists.midnight-commander.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel/
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11.3 Where should I look on the World Wide Web for MC stuff?
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11.4 Are the mailing lists archived anywhere?
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