2 pane, swiss army knife file manager?

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 19 November 2012 19:47:16 Basil Chupin did opine:

> On 20/11/12 05:54, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> > 
> > Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, 32 bit, installed on a quad core Phenom.
> > 
> > A decade back, midnight commander, aka mc, was _the_ tool of choice.
> > Stable, extremely capable with a builtin ftp client/server, one could
> > literally move a file from anyplace on the planet to anyplace else on
> > the planet if you knew the passwords for those places.
> 
> [...............]
> 
> > I just spent an hour scanning for 2 pane file managers in the synaptic
> > ALL listing without finding anything but mc.
> > 
> > So, what are we supposed to use today?
> 
> There is nothing wrong at all with mc - hasn't changed in the many years
> that I have been using it. If you are having troubles then you have not
> configured something correctly.
> 
> Here is a screenshot of mc taken a few minutes ago:
> 
> http://picpaste.com/MC-screen-mCGYSlHY.jpg
> 
> Anything wrong with this?
> 
> BC

Not a thing Basil.  But if I click on a graphics file, it will show it to 
me, but its own screen will be destroyed in the process, unrecovereble 
ANAICT.

Cheers, Gene
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