Re: [META] Use of the list for non-Debian matters
On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, John Foster wrote:
[snip]
> I've been thinking about the entire newbie/documentation thing a lot
> lately. There has to be a way for newbies to get into the
> /usr/doc/*/*gz files before they know about gzip, zcat and zless. And
> there has to be a way of saying RTFM without being rude.
Midnight Commander (mc) could fill this role. As it happens the current
version is broken to the extent that it does not know how to access .deb
files. There is a bug report on this which is a month old but mc is still
useful as it can handle .gz files and the like.
The bug is easily fixed, BTW. mc_3.5.17-1.deb has two copies of mc.ext.
One is right and one is wrong. The "right" version is in the wrong place.
If you have this problem mv /etc/mc.ext /etc/mc/
Lindsay
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