home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- -*-Text-*-
-
- This is version 2.0 of the Midnight Commander, a free Norton Commander
- Clone with many useful features. The Midnight Commander comes with
- mouse support on xterms and optionally on the Linux console.
-
- The Midnight Commander is a directory browsing tool which bears a
- certain remote resemblance to John Socha's Norton Commander for DOS.
- The Midnight Commander doesn't have all the bells and whistles of its
- DOS counterpart, but was written in much less time, mainly because
- Emacs, Linux and the GNU project provide much better programming tools
- than any environment under DOS.
-
- There is a mailing list for discussion on enhancing the program, future
- directions and announcements; if you want to subscribe, send mail to:
-
- majordomo@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
-
- There is a WWW page for the Midnight Commander with the URL:
- <http://stekt.oulu.fi/~jtklehto/mc/>.
-
- The Midnight Commander allows you to browse directories and perform
- common file management tasks in two different subdirectories. To switch
- directories, you press the Tab key.
-
- Common operations are done by selecting a file or a group of files by
- tagging them (using the Ins key or C-t) and then applying an operation
- to them (copy, rename, delete, etc).
-
- Pressing Enter will change a directory if you are pointing at a
- directory; execute a program if you are pointing an executable program;
- and, if you are pointing at a file that has an extension associated to
- a program, run the associated program.
-
- Also, if you have the gpm Linux Mouse Server, the Midnight Commander
- will have mouse support on Linux console in addition to xterm mouse
- support. Check the man page for more information on how this works.
-
- The Midnight Commander comes with a simple menuing facility that allows
- you to provide your users with a simple menu for the most common tasks;
- check the manual page or take a look at the sample mc.menu file in the
- distribution directory.
-
- The Midnight Commander is released under the GNU General Public License
- version 2.0 or any later version. A copy of the file is included with
- this distribution package.
-
- If you have comments, you can send them to me:
-
- miguel@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
-
- or if it would benefit more people, to the mailing list:
-
- midnight@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx
-
- If you find this software useful, drop us a note and consider making a
- donation to the Free Software Foundation (the address of the FSF is in
- the COPYING file included in this distribution).
-
- Mini-documentation
- ------------------
-
- o Use the F-Keys for invoking the commands in the function key bar.
- If your terminal doesn't support F-keys, you can use the <ESC digit>
- sequence to invoke the corresponding F-digit key.
-
- o Tab changes the current panel.
-
- o All input lines have emacs-like key-bindings (command history is
- accessed through the M-p and M-n keys).
-
- o The panels accept C-n, C-p for browsing the panel (like in emacs).
-
- o M-Enter copies the currently selected file name to the input line.
-
- o Please read the manual page.
-
- o Read the file TODO for the current projects.
-
- You can access the whole documentation online with the F1 key,
- although it's not as nice as the groff printed manual page :-)
-
-
- Where you may obtain the Midnight Commander
- -------------------------------------------
-
- The software should be available by anonymous ftp at sunsite.unc.edu
- in the directory /pub/Linux/utils/file and at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx
- in the directory /linux/local.
-
- The last alpha versions are available at ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx in the
- directory /linux/local/devel.
-