Midnight Commander

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Ah, I am using slackware.  How would I start it?

At 07:45 PM 8/9/2005, you wrote:
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>Oh, you mean I'll have it by Thanksgiving instead:)  All kidding asside,
>sounds like some highlight tracking may be on the way??? That would be
>most excellent for curses based applications like many browsers and the
>midnight commander.
>
>To answer another question, the Midnight Commander is a full screen file
>manager.  It resembles the old Norton Commander used on many DOS and
>some Windows systems.  Slackware has it available as a pre-compiled
>package.  It's actually pretty cool.
>
>On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 04:49:05PM -0400, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Well, I would hate to steal his thunder, but I think you should be a
> > little patient. I believe Mr. Kirk has an evolving surprise or two along
> > these lines--and I suspect you won't have to wait 'til Christmas,
> > either.
> >
> > Steve Holmes writes:
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> > > I just started messing with the midnight commander the past few days and
> > > find it to be pretty handy.  I am curious however, what some others
> > > might have done to make it most speakup friendly:).  So far, I made sure
> > > to use the "Complete" option for file names and I find myself looking at
> > > the status line just above the hint line quite a bit.  Speakup's cursor
> > > (system cursor) doesn't seem to follow the file selection list so that's
> > > why the above mentioned task.  I also wonder about files marked or
> > > tagged.  I don't seem to find any real easy way to track tagged items.
> > > Other than these minor problems, I find it handy to track and play my
> > > podcast files and delete them as I finish with them; beats typing whole
> > > file names over and over again.
> > >
> > > Thanks for any ideas and/or suggestions.
> > >
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