Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.moneng.mei.com! hookup!news.mathworks.com!udel!rochester!cornell!bounce-bounce From: mig...@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza) Subject: Midnight Commander 1.0 (was Mouseless Commander) Message-ID: <ann-18076.783617939@cs.cornell.edu> Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Keywords: file manager mouse client midnight commander Sender: m...@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh) Reply-To: mig...@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx (Miguel de Icaza) Organization: None Date: Mon, 31 Oct 1994 15:39:30 GMT Approved: linux-annou...@tc.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh) Lines: 108 This is version 1.0 of the Midnight Commander, previously known as the MouseLess Commander, but this name doesn't fit very well anymore. The principal changes since the last beta version are documented at the end of this document. The Midnight Commander is a directory browsing tool with a very close look and feel to John Socha's Norton Commander for DOS (it's very nice, fast and we have tested it for months, you really need a copy of it). The program currently has been run on the following configurations succesfully: i386-*-linux1.0 i386-*-linux1.1 mips-sgi-irix5.2 mips-dec-ultrix4.3 rs6000-ibm-aix3.2.5 sparc-sun-sunos4.1 sparc-sun-solaris2.3 And since now we are using GNU's autoconf, it should be pretty easy to port to other configurations. I have uploaded the Midnight Commander 1.0 to sunsite.unc.edu in the directory /pub/Linux/Incoming as the file mc-1.0.tar.gz and will be moved sometime to /pub/Linux/utils/file/managers. The Midnight Commander comes with mouse support on xterms and on the Linux console. The mouse support on the Linux console depends on the availability of the GPM Mouse Server, you can get this one from iride.unipv.it in the directory /pub/gpm. The Midnight Commander was written by Miguel de Icaza, Janne Kukonlehto and Mauricio Plaza. We have setup a mailing list for discussing the development of the program, reporting bugs and proposing new enhancements, to suscribe send a mail to mc-requ...@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx. And this is are the changes from the last beta version 0.14: - Improvements to the internal file viewer: Wrap/Unwrap mode. Hex mode. Hex searches. Now you can view compressed files (gzip, compress, zip, pack and lzh). Performance enhancements, now it's much faster. Works on systems without mmap. - Mouse Support now also works on xterms. If you run in the Linux console, you will still need the gpm mouse server to use the mouse support, but if you use xterms, then you're lucky and can use the mouse support when using xterms. - Help system and man page. Both were updated and has many more hypertext links inside, the help system can also be used with a mouse. - If running on xterms, now you can see the output of the last program you ran by using the C-o key combination. - Switch panels command (C-u) - With filter command per panel. - With auto mounting/umounting on chdir feature. - With tilde expansion (~, ~user). - Much more portable. - The documentantation is much clearer and has been enhanced. - Many bugs were fixed. - Much better messages. - No more hard coded limits (on input lines, directory sizes, internal buffers and more). And here it's the LSM file: Begin3 Title: Midnight Commander Version: 1.0 Entered-date: 29 Oct 1994. Description: File manager with mouse support. Keywords: File manager, mouse support, gpm client, user shell, menu utility. Author: mig...@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx jtkle...@stekt.oulu.fi m...@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx Maintained-by: mig...@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx Primary-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/utils/file/managers 136k mc-1.0.tar.gz Alternate-site: ftp.nuclecu.unam.mx /linux/local 136k mc-1.0.tar.gz Platforms: ncurses 1.8.5; ftp.netcom.com:/pub/zmbenhal if Mouse Support is required on the Linux Console, then the GPM mouse server, available at: iride.unipv.it:/pub/gpm/ Mouse support on xterms is standard. Copying-policy: GPL End -- Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: linux-annou...@tc.cornell.edu Be sure to include Keywords: and a short description of your software.