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Midnight Commander Development Revived

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the always-nice-to-see-popular-packages-resurrected dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Sweet by H0p313ss · · Score: 4, Informative

    Yeah! Let's post about some obscure piece of software so unused not even unemployed open sores "programmers" want to touch it.

    Congratulations, you have officially identified yourself as completely clueless.

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    XML is a known as a key material required to create SMD: Software of Mass Destruction
  2. Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Sorry for this.

    There are currently over 2000 different IPs online on the webserver _per minute_. We are currently looking for a solution to fix this as fast as possible :S Sorry for the downtime (and thanks for your excellent DoS! :))

  3. Re:"let's hope revival is both healthy and lengthy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Okay.. thanks for taking down my/our webserver.. however most of the people will be interested in the sourcecode (at least I hope so).

    For those which only want to have the code, please have a look on this git mirror:

      http://repo.or.cz/w/midnight-commander.git

    as I've currently took down the webserver because it makes no sense to let him running this way. I'll search for a solution as fast as possible.

    Greetings
    Patrick Winnertz
    on behalf of the MC Development Team

  4. Re:Who needs MC ... by mxs · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can FUD like the best of em, I give you that.

    I have MCs still running that were started 3 years ago (and used, too !), so bollocks on the crashes.

    Corrupts files ? Care to give an example ? At least I have not run into such a bug.

    I'll give GnuIT another look. Last time I tried it, I went back to mc.

  5. Re:Arg! not mc again!! by Jeremy+Visser · · Score: 3, Informative

    You can get it working by right-clicking on the terminal, and unchecking Show Menubar. Then F10 works.