In the Dark with Midnight Commander

[Martin C]

--- Geoffrey Hunter <GHunter-kgJIzn72htc at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Echoing Peter Peres' concern about the inadequacy of
> Linux documentation:
> I switched to Linux in the summer of 2002 to regain
> control of how I compute;
> as a former DOS user I used to use Norton Commander
> as my window into my
> computer: it displayed the contents of two
> directories side by side, and the
> bottom box had a command-line prompt - commands
> typed there automatically
> looked for files in the selected left or right
> directory.
>       With Norton I was in command: I could easily
> display any directory,
> and once selected easily (one-keystroke commands)
> select files and then copy,
> move, edit, and process them and see what you were
> doing the whole time - 
> so I was induced to switch to Linux because it had
> "midnight commander"
> supposedly modeled after Norton Commander.
>     Midnight commander (and linux generally) has
> been a big disappointment: 
> I have yet to find any documentation (man pages or
> anything else), and 
> unlike Norton Commander the command-line (bottom)
> box doesn't automatically
> look for files in the selected directory - I have to
> issue a cd command.
> Each box has round and square buttons at the bottom
> (turn green when clicked)
> but what they do/mean remains a mystery.

Some things I've found googling:
http://home.worldonline.co.za/~jctrembath/mctutorial.html
http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/online_help/howto/mc/
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue23/wkndmech_dec97/mc_article.html
and the man mc
http://man.he.net/?topic=mc&section=all

I should read some of them too...



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