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[6732c094] | 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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[52d29f7] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 |
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[2571cae1] | 7 | <!ENTITY mc-download-http "http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/file/managers/mc/mc-&mc-version;.tar.gz">
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[3cd5c69] | 8 | <!ENTITY mc-download-ftp "ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/util/shell/mc-&mc-version;.tar.gz">
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| 9 | <!ENTITY mc-md5sum "18b20db6e40480a53bac2870c56fc3c4">
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| 10 | <!ENTITY mc-size "3.8 MB">
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| 11 | <!ENTITY mc-buildsize "29 MB">
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| 12 | <!ENTITY mc-time "0.4 SBU">
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[52d29f7] | 13 | ]>
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| 14 |
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[2082ebf6] | 15 | <sect1 id="mc" xreflabel="MC-&mc-version;">
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[2571cae1] | 16 | <?dbhtml filename="mc.html"?>
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| 17 |
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| 18 | <sect1info>
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| 19 | <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
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| 20 | <date>$Date$</date>
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| 21 | </sect1info>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <title>MC-&mc-version;</title>
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| 24 |
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| 25 | <indexterm zone="mc">
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| 26 | <primary sortas="a-MC">MC</primary>
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| 27 | </indexterm>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <sect2 role="package">
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| 30 | <title>Introduction to MC</title>
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| 31 |
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[539ace5] | 32 | <para><application>MC</application> (Midnight Commander) is a text-mode
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[3cd5c69] | 33 | full-screen file manager and visual shell. It provides a clear,
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| 34 | user-friendly, and somewhat protected interface to a Unix system while
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| 35 | making many frequent file operations more efficient and preserving the
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| 36 | full power of the command prompt.</para>
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| 37 |
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[2571cae1] | 38 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
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| 39 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 40 | <listitem>
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| 41 | <para>Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&mc-download-http;"/></para>
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| 42 | </listitem>
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| 43 | <listitem>
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| 44 | <para>Download (FTP): <ulink url="&mc-download-ftp;"/></para>
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| 45 | </listitem>
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| 46 | <listitem>
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| 47 | <para>Download MD5 sum: &mc-md5sum;</para>
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| 48 | </listitem>
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| 49 | <listitem>
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| 50 | <para>Download size: &mc-size;</para>
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| 51 | </listitem>
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| 52 | <listitem>
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| 53 | <para>Estimated disk space required: &mc-buildsize;</para>
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| 54 | </listitem>
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| 55 | <listitem>
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| 56 | <para>Estimated build time: &mc-time;</para>
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| 57 | </listitem>
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| 58 | </itemizedlist>
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| 59 |
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[3a575ab5] | 60 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Additional Downloads</bridgehead>
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| 61 | <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
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| 62 | <listitem>
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| 63 | <para>Required patch: <ulink
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| 64 | url="&patch-root;/mc-&mc-version;-bash32-1.patch"/></para>
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| 65 | </listitem>
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| 66 | <listitem>
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| 67 | <para>Recommended Patch: <ulink
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| 68 | url="&patch-root;/mc-&mc-version;-debian_fixes-1.patch"/></para>
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| 69 | </listitem>
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| 70 | </itemizedlist>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Do I Need the Debian Patch?</bridgehead>
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| 73 | <para>Midnight Commander without the Debian patch is completely unusable
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| 74 | in multibyte locales because it assumes that characters and
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| 75 | bytes are the same thing. The issue manifests itself as massive screen
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[f0801a2d] | 76 | content corruption similar to what is depicted in
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[3a575ab5] | 77 | <ulink url="&files-anduin;/mc-bad.png">this screenshot</ulink>
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| 78 | (taken in the ru_RU.UTF-8 locale). For a general discussion of this type
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[a4b9cd7] | 79 | of issue, see the <xref linkend="locale-wrong-multibyte-characters"/>
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| 80 | section of the <xref linkend="locale-issues"/> page. The Debian patch
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[3a575ab5] | 81 | mostly fixes this issue, and adds support for recoding remote FTP
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| 82 | filenames. Debian also fixed 64-bit issues, rare segfaults in
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| 83 | <command>mcedit</command>, and improved syntax highlighting.</para>
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[29f80ebc] | 84 |
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[3a575ab5] | 85 | <para>If you do not use a multibyte locale and do not need any of the new
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| 86 | features or fixes, the patch is still supposed to be harmless.
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| 87 | However, the patch changes the dependencies and build instructions, and
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| 88 | in the past it caused unacceptable regressions for non-UTF-8 locale users.
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| 89 | Thus, failsafe instructions without the patch are left in the book just
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| 90 | in case. Due to the size and unofficial nature of the patch, please
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[f0801a2d] | 91 | do not report bugs in the patched <application>MC</application> to the
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| 92 | original <application>MC</application> developers.</para>
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[3a575ab5] | 93 |
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[2571cae1] | 94 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">MC Dependencies</bridgehead>
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| 95 |
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| 96 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
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[3a575ab5] | 97 | <para role="required"><xref linkend="GLib"/> (untested with Debian patch) or
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[3cd5c69] | 98 | <xref linkend="glib2"/></para>
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[2571cae1] | 99 |
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| 100 | <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
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[56762b82] | 101 | <para role="optional"><xref linkend="gpm"/>,
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[e77976f] | 102 | <xref linkend="x-window-system"/>,
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[2571cae1] | 103 | <xref linkend="samba3"/>,
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[3a575ab5] | 104 | <xref linkend="slang"/> (required when building with Debian patch),
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[2571cae1] | 105 | <xref linkend="zip"/>,
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[3cd5c69] | 106 | <xref linkend="unzip"/>, and
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[2571cae1] | 107 | <xref linkend="gnome-libs"/></para>
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| 108 |
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[1039de3] | 109 | <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
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[6c42d4e] | 110 | <ulink url="&blfs-wiki;/MC"/></para>
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[1039de3] | 111 |
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[2571cae1] | 112 | </sect2>
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| 113 |
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| 114 | <sect2 role="installation">
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| 115 | <title>Installation of MC</title>
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| 116 |
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[f0801a2d] | 117 | <para>Fix incompatibility of <application>MC</application>-&mc-version;
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| 118 | with <application>Bash</application>-3.2:</para>
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| 119 |
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[3a575ab5] | 120 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../mc-&mc-version;-bash32-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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| 121 |
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| 122 | <para>If desired, apply Debian fixes:</para>
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[f0801a2d] | 123 |
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[3a575ab5] | 124 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../mc-&mc-version;-debian_fixes-1.patch</userinput></screen>
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| 125 |
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[2571cae1] | 126 | <para>Install <application>MC</application> by
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| 127 | running the following commands:</para>
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| 128 |
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[3a575ab5] | 129 | <screen><userinput>CPPFLAGS="-DUTF8" ./configure --prefix=/usr \
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| 130 | --enable-charset &&
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[f0801a2d] | 131 | make</userinput></screen>
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[3a575ab5] | 132 |
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[f0801a2d] | 133 | <para><application>MC</application> with Debian patches expects its
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| 134 | documentation to be stored in UTF-8 encoding on disk, and automatically
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| 135 | converts it to the locale encoding when displaying on the terminal. This
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| 136 | is different from the expectations of the unpatched
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| 137 | <application>MC</application>, so the documentation files have to be
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[3a575ab5] | 138 | converted if (and only if) the Debian patch has been applied:</para>
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[f0801a2d] | 139 |
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[3a575ab5] | 140 | <screen><userinput>convert-mans ISO-8859-1 UTF-8 lib/mc.hint{,.es,.it,.nl} &&
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| 141 | convert-mans ISO-8859-2 UTF-8 lib/mc.hint{.cs,.hu,.pl} &&
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| 142 | convert-mans ISO-8859-5 UTF-8 lib/mc.hint.sr &&
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| 143 | convert-mans KOI8-R UTF-8 lib/mc.hint.ru &&
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| 144 | convert-mans KOI8-U UTF-8 lib/mc.hint.uk &&
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| 145 | convert-mans BIG5 UTF-8 lib/mc.hint.zh &&
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| 146 | convert-mans ISO-8859-1 UTF-8 doc/{es,it}/mc.hlp.* &&
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| 147 | convert-mans ISO-8859-2 UTF-8 doc/{hu,pl}/mc.hlp.* &&
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| 148 | convert-mans ISO-8859-5 UTF-8 doc/sr/mc.hlp.sr &&
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| 149 | convert-mans KOI8-R UTF-8 doc/ru/mc.hlp.ru</userinput></screen>
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[7f78b6f] | 150 |
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[b4054a8] | 151 | <para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
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[bccbdaea] | 152 |
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[7f78b6f] | 153 | <para>Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:</para>
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| 154 |
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[3a575ab5] | 155 | <screen role="root"><userinput>make install &&
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| 156 | chmod 1755 /usr/lib/mc/cons.saver</userinput></screen>
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| 157 |
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| 158 | </sect2>
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| 159 |
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| 160 | <sect2 role="commands">
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| 161 | <title>Command Explanations</title>
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[29f80ebc] | 162 |
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[3a575ab5] | 163 | <para><parameter>CPPFLAGS="-DUTF8"</parameter>: This parameter activates
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[f0801a2d] | 164 | UTF-8 support in the Debian patch and has no effect without this
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| 165 | patch.</para>
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[3a575ab5] | 166 |
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| 167 | <para><parameter>--enable-charset</parameter>: This option adds support
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[f0801a2d] | 168 | to <command>mcedit</command> for editing files in encodings different
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| 169 | from the one implied by the current locale. This feature works in
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| 170 | non-UTF-8 locales only, even with the Debian patch.</para>
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[29f80ebc] | 171 |
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[3a575ab5] | 172 | <para><parameter>--with-screen=(slang|mcslang|ncurses)</parameter>: This
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[f0801a2d] | 173 | parameter selects the screen library used by <application>MC</application>.
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| 174 | <application>NCurses</application> support is
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[3a575ab5] | 175 | currently buggy (MC does not handle mouse events in xterm correctly).
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| 176 | UTF-8 support in the Debian patch is functional
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| 177 | only when external <xref linkend="slang"/> is used as a screen library
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| 178 | (this is the default).</para>
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[29f80ebc] | 179 |
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[f0801a2d] | 180 | <para><parameter>--with-codepagedir=DIR</parameter>: This parameter was
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| 181 | useful only with <application>SAMBA</application>-2.x. New versions of
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| 182 | <application>SAMBA</application> do not have codepage files.</para>
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[29f80ebc] | 183 |
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[3a575ab5] | 184 | <para><command>chmod 1755 /usr/lib/mc/cons.saver</command>: The
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[f0801a2d] | 185 | <command>cons.saver</command> program has to be installed setuid
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| 186 | root, because on LFS regular users have no access to
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| 187 | <filename>/dev/vcsa*</filename> devices. This step is optional if
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| 188 | <application>MC</application> is going to be started from X terminal
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| 189 | emulators or <command>ssh</command> sessions only (thus rendering the
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| 190 | <command>cons.saver</command> binary completely unneeded).</para>
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[3a575ab5] | 191 |
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| 192 | <!-- Other distributions make the devices owned by the vcsa group
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| 193 | and make the cons.saver program setgid vcsa instead -->
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[2571cae1] | 194 |
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| 195 | </sect2>
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| 196 |
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| 197 | <sect2 role="configuration">
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| 198 | <title>Configuring MC</title>
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| 199 |
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| 200 | <sect3 id="mc-config">
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| 201 | <title>Config Files</title>
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| 202 |
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| 203 | <para><filename>~/.mc/*</filename></para>
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| 204 |
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| 205 | <indexterm zone="mc mc-config">
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| 206 | <primary sortas="e-AA..mc/*">~/..mc/*</primary>
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| 207 | </indexterm>
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| 208 |
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| 209 | </sect3>
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| 210 |
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| 211 | <sect3>
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| 212 | <title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 213 |
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| 214 | <para>The <filename class="directory">~/.mc</filename> directory and
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| 215 | its contents are created when you start <command>mc</command> for the
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[0619e6d] | 216 | first time. Then you can edit the main <filename>~/.mc/ini</filename>
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| 217 | configuration file manually or through the <application>MC</application>
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[2571cae1] | 218 | shell. Consult the mc(1) man page for details.</para>
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| 219 |
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| 220 | </sect3>
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| 221 |
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| 222 | </sect2>
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| 223 |
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| 224 | <sect2 role="content">
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| 225 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 226 |
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| 227 | <segmentedlist>
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| 228 | <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
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| 229 | <segtitle>Installed Libraries</segtitle>
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| 230 | <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>
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| 231 |
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| 232 | <seglistitem>
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[3a575ab5] | 233 | <seg>cons.saver, mc, mcedit, mcmfmt, and mcview</seg>
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[2571cae1] | 234 | <seg>None</seg>
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[b4054a8] | 235 | <seg>/usr/share/mc and /usr/lib/mc</seg>
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[2571cae1] | 236 | </seglistitem>
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| 237 | </segmentedlist>
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| 238 |
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| 239 | <variablelist>
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| 240 | <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
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| 241 | <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
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| 242 | <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
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| 243 |
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[3a575ab5] | 244 | <varlistentry id="conssaver">
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| 245 | <term><command>cons.saver</command></term>
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| 246 | <listitem>
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| 247 | <para>is used internally by <command>mc</command> for saving and
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[f0801a2d] | 248 | restoring the text behind the panels on Linux text console.</para>
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[3a575ab5] | 249 | <indexterm zone="mc conssaver">
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| 250 | <primary sortas="b-conssaver">cons.saver</primary>
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| 251 | </indexterm>
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| 252 | </listitem>
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| 253 | </varlistentry>
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| 254 |
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[2571cae1] | 255 | <varlistentry id="mc-prog">
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| 256 | <term><command>mc</command></term>
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| 257 | <listitem>
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| 258 | <para>is a visual shell.</para>
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| 259 | <indexterm zone="mc mc-prog">
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| 260 | <primary sortas="b-mc">mc</primary>
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| 261 | </indexterm>
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| 262 | </listitem>
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| 263 | </varlistentry>
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| 264 |
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| 265 | <varlistentry id="mcedit">
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| 266 | <term><command>mcedit</command></term>
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| 267 | <listitem>
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| 268 | <para>is an internal file editor.</para>
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| 269 | <indexterm zone="mc mcedit">
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| 270 | <primary sortas="b-mcedit">mcedit</primary>
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| 271 | </indexterm>
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| 272 | </listitem>
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| 273 | </varlistentry>
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| 274 |
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[3a575ab5] | 275 | <varlistentry id="mcmfmt">
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| 276 | <term><command>mcmfmt</command></term>
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| 277 | <listitem>
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[f0801a2d] | 278 | <para>is used internally by <command>mcview</command> when viewing
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| 279 | mailbox files.</para>
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[3a575ab5] | 280 | <indexterm zone="mc mcmfmt">
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| 281 | <primary sortas="b-mcmfmt">mcmfmt</primary>
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| 282 | </indexterm>
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| 283 | </listitem>
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| 284 | </varlistentry>
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| 285 |
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[2571cae1] | 286 | <varlistentry id="mcview">
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| 287 | <term><command>mcview</command></term>
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| 288 | <listitem>
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| 289 | <para>is an internal file viewer.</para>
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| 290 | <indexterm zone="mc mcview">
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| 291 | <primary sortas="b-mcview">mcview</primary>
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| 292 | </indexterm>
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| 293 | </listitem>
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| 294 | </varlistentry>
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| 295 |
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| 296 | </variablelist>
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| 297 |
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| 298 | </sect2>
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[2082ebf6] | 299 |
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| 300 | </sect1>
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