[ITP] Midnight Commander 4.5.55

Nicholas Wourms nwourms@netscape.net
Sun Jul 7 05:43:00 GMT 2002


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 05, 2002 at 09:25:29PM +0200, ptsekov@syntrex.com wrote:
>
>>Hello, there! :)
>>
>>I finally packaged Midnight Commander for inclusion in the cygwin
>>distrubution. I delayed this for some time, because there is a bug
>>in cygwin, triggered when using MC with subshell support - I wanted
>>to kill this bug first and then relase, but didn't find enough time
>>to properly debug the problem. So this release is compiled without
>>subshell support - this IMO is not a big loss.
>>
>>I've been using MC for some time now and it behaves fine here.
>>
>>Please, take a look at the packages and inform me of any
>>inconsistencies you find.
>>
>>
>>http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.5.55-1-src.tar.bz2
>>http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/mc-4.5.55-1.tar.bz2
>>http://ptsekov.gamersrevolt.it/cygwin/release/mc/setup.hint
>>
>>category: Shells Utils Editors
>>requires: libncurses6 cygwin
>>sdesc: "Midnight Commander visual shell"
>>ldesc: "Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager,
>>only with way more features. It is text mode, but also includes mouse
>>support if you are running GPM. Its coolest feature is the ability to
>>ftp, view tar, zip files, and poke into RPMs for specific files."
>>
>
>Anybody looking into this package?  I'm not using this stuff so
>I don't know.  But I think it's a nice extension for the net distro
>so I vote for it.
>
I've checked it out.  It looks good at this end (That is to say it works 
after briefly using it)...  I'll give it my vote.

Cheers,
Nicholas



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