what can mid night commander do

[Abhishek Dixit]

On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 22:33 +0530, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
>> > On 03/03/11 13:13, Tony Pursell wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Thu, 2011-03-03 at 17:33 +0530, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I came across a Ubuntu package known as mid night commander.
>> >>>
>> >>> It looks funny but I am not able to understand what can it do?
>> >>>
>> >>> --
>> >>> Regards
>> >>> Abhi
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> I googled Midnight Commander and came up with this
>> >>
>> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midnight_Commander
>> >>
>> >> There were other search results as well
>> >>
>> >> Tony
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> > It's the linux version of the old Norton Commander we all used in the DOS
>> > era.
>> Can it do an sftp ?
>
> type "man mc" in a terminal window.  If you hit the "/" key and enter
> "sftp" behind it, (without the quotes) you will get an immediate answer
> to the find query. :)  Ric
>
>
Well :) I tried using and from most of the wiki etc I understand it
basically is used to see the package file contents.i.e. deb or rpm
file contents and copy paste.So why is it actually existing is it any
where used can't that be done by tar or any such utility?

-- 
Regards
Abhi