what can mid night commander do

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 21:25 +0530, Abhishek Dixit wrote: 
> 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?

It's kinda like having a favorite shovel. When you need it, it's
there ...and it always works. :) Ric


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