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Midnight Commander Development Revived
richlv writes "Popular Unix console file manager Midnight Commander has experienced a stall for the last few years. Most distributions (including the conservative Slackware) shipped patched packages or snapshots. Despite that, everybody had a favorite bug or two — either inability to specify ssh connection port, or problems with interrupted FTP sessions. Or maybe copying of larger datasets. Or maybe the infamous 'shell is still active' message, which often brought unexpected changes of current directory with it. Whatever it was, we either cursed it every time, or learned to live with it. It seems that finally something many were waiting for has happened — there's some activity on mc development. Check out the new homepage, and let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy."
Midnight commander is a classic example of making things too easy. Anyone that can't or doesn't want to use command line tools has no business moving files around on any unix machine.
It's windows mentality to patronize users, it's not unix mentality.
I am not a command line hacker - mc has always been a VERY important tool I install in just about every box I've ever set up.
ls directory
mv source dest
cp source dest
rm file
rmdir dir
If you can't master that then how on earth do you have the knowledge to set up any kind of box?