--- Geoffrey Hunter <GHunter-kgJIzn72htc at public.gmane.org> wrote:

Echoing Peter Peres' concern about the inadequacy of Linux documentation: I switched to Linux in the summer of 2002 to regain control of how I compute; as a former DOS user I used to use Norton Commander as my window into my computer: it displayed the contents of two directories side by side, and the bottom box had a command-line prompt - commands typed there automatically looked for files in the selected left or right directory. With Norton I was in command: I could easily display any directory, and once selected easily (one-keystroke commands) select files and then copy, move, edit, and process them and see what you were doing the whole time - so I was induced to switch to Linux because it had "midnight commander" supposedly modeled after Norton Commander. Midnight commander (and linux generally) has been a big disappointment: I have yet to find any documentation (man pages or anything else), and unlike Norton Commander the command-line (bottom) box doesn't automatically look for files in the selected directory - I have to issue a cd command. Each box has round and square buttons at the bottom (turn green when clicked) but what they do/mean remains a mystery.

Some things I've found googling: http://home.worldonline.co.za/~jctrembath/mctutorial.html http://www.suse.de/en/private/support/online_help/howto/mc/ http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue23/wkndmech_dec97/mc_article.html and the man mc http://man.he.net/?topic=mc§ion=all I should read some of them too... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml