Character-mode File Manager

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I'm running an old Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 on an old IBM 100 MHz Pentium. Until a few days ago I only had experience with WinDOwS. I hate Konqueror - even more than Exploder - and love DOS Navigator. I searched all over for Midnight Commander but the only one I could find requires a zillion files I don't have on my old distro. I'm not so sure I want to scour around looking for them too - it was hard enough tracking down MC. So: Anyone know where I can find an old MC or some other dual-pane character-mode file manager that doesn't care much about meese and that might run on my Linux practice system?

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*bump*

Seriously - *any*thing to manage my files. I'm about ls'ed and cp'ed and cd'ed and mkdir'ed out. :( Got a few aliases in my bashrc and I like the command-line just fine for a lot of stuff but I like "seeing" my directories and just hitting ENTER or whatever, to view the contents. F6 to zip 'em over to the other pane. Etc. :cool:

[Saptech]

Have you searched your distro's cd disc for MC? Goto Freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net) and search for one there.

I thought MC was pretty standard with most distros.

[GaryJones32]

I like emacs for this myself
unfortunately there is no mkdir in emacs i know of

lets see i will just tell you how i do it and you can go from there
set the geometry for the window size,color,font size and junk in .Xdefaults

in .emacs file i like to put
(setq pop-up-frames t)
that gets rid of that split top and bottom screen -- that drives we crazy.(just a personal thing)

then just call it on the directory or any directory and navigate around with the arrows and move to other dirs or open files with the enter key

emacs ./
or
emacs dirname

or cntrl. x d and type in the dirname

mark files you want to delete with d
then type x to axe them
capital C is copy and then type in the dir to copy to
to copy 3 files in a row C3
capital R to rename (like mv you can move it too)

Cntrl. x Cntrl. c will get you out of emacs

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Wow. Is there anything emacs *can't* do? I never thought of using it that way - didn't know it could operate on files that way. Thanks - I'll try that.

Saptech - yep, me too. Thought it was standard but a search on my disc turned up nothing. I think I did try Freshmeat too - I was there looking for something anyway. But I'll try that again. Sounds like the emacs thing would work, but a dedicated file manager would be better. Thank you, too.

[Saptech]

My first linux experience was using Caldera's Openlinux 1.2 and it seems like I had MC....maybe I downloaded from someplace if it wasn't on my disc.

Try searching google.com/linux for Midnight Commmander, they should have a website.

I found this site, while searching around.

Sunshine Commander (http://www.icewalk.com/softlib/app/app_01037.html), check it out.

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Thanks for the reminder, Saptech - I went back to freshmeat and I had been there before and followed the links to the ftp directory but must have been blind or something. This time when I went I saw the same old dozens and dozens of 4.5 and 4.6 versions but saw a couple of 4.1s. Couple of glitchy spots compiling, but it seemed to go just fine. Part of it will just be getting used to it, but I still don't think it's anywhere near as good as DOS Navigator (some team of Russian guys made that and it's a damn fine piece of software) - pity about the OS it has to run on top of ;) - but it's still quite good. It's great coming off the command line and works great in Blackbox but for some reason xterm won't maximize in Ratpoison (I swear I thought it used to) - the "screen" does, but not the actual xterm region - so MC loads up the same tiny way in that. :mad: Still, it works off the command line and that's good because I blew up X tonight and it'll help when I go back in to fix it.

And thanks for finding that other one for me - I think I'll stick with this one for awhile but may give that a go at some point and GaryJones32's emacs thing, too.