The shell Midnight Commander beta 4.5.4 for OS/2, ported from Linux, is now available at Pete Norloff's BBS, where I, @Macarlo, subscriber of this BBS, downloaded it today february 20, 1999. The file is MC454BIN.ZIP (577,8Kb). I' m running it fine here and recommend! On Red Hat Linux 5.2 where I' m working now, with StarOffice 5.0 Personal Edition, Midnight Commander is my favorite shell as a file manager, text editor and backup machine -and also as a FTP. If you are interested in increase productivity get the zipfile now from Norloff's clicking at: http://www.os2bbs.com

Note: Also the source code is available from Norloff's

HOW TO INSTALL

- copy file mc-4.5.4.zip to c:/usr/lib (or other directory x:/yyy/zzz and

add to CONFIG.SYS line "SET MC_LIBDIR=x:/yyy/zzz/mc" )

- unzip mc-4.5.4.zip

- copy mc/bin/mmap.dll to LIBPATH

- copy mc/bin/*.exe to PATH or modify examples mc/doc/*.cmd

- if need set environment variables HOME, TMP, TERM, TERMCAP

(modify config.sys or use script)

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Midnight Commander 4.5.4 Beta for OS/2 with EMX Sat Jan 2 12:10:44 CET 1999

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Original Midnight Commander 4.5.4 Beta source (98-12-30):

http://www.gnome.org/cgi-bin/mc/download/devel/mc-4.5.4.tar.gz.html

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The Midnight Commander 4.5.4

with mouse support on xterm and the OS/2 console.

Edition: text mode.

Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, ftpfs, mcfs.

With builtin Editor

Using S-lang library with termcap database

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Midnight Commander 4.5.4 features mostly supported.

* OS/2 console, xterm and telnet session,

* mouse support for console and xterm,

* new mc -K option switch to "unix" code for console (telnet from

unix host, "Learn keys" feature etc.)

* VFS (virtual file system) supported (with drives on remote system),

ftpfs is patched to work with IBM ftp server for OS/2,

* internal editor is supported (including syntax highlighting and

Linux console features).

* mcserv for OS/2 with private mc passwd support and new -o option

for standard mc clients ( in this mode cannot change drives )

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extfs tested only for *.tar *.tar.gz *.tgz *.zip

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os2 keyboard specific keys:

select group M-+ <Alt>+<+> (numeric keypad)

unselect group M-- <Alt>+<-> (numeric keypad)

reverse selection M-* <Alt>+<*> (numeric keypad)

find file M-x

filtered view only from menu

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requiered: emx runtime

environment variables

HOME, TMP, TERM, TERMCAP

MC_LIBDIR ( if different from compiled path "c:/usr/lib/mc" )

gnu fileutils, gzip, tar, sh ...

termcap file ( sample file included )

mmap.dll (included)

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CONFIG.SYS example:

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...

SET HOME=c:/home

SET TERM=ansi

SET TERMCAP=c:/usr/XFree86/lib/X11/etc/emx.termcap.x11

SET TMP=C:\TMP

SET MC_LIBDIR=c:/usr/local/lib/mc

...

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mc.cmd example:

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@SET SHELL=c:/bin/sh

@SET MC_LIBDIR=c:/usr/lib/mc

@SET TERMCAP=%MC_LIBDIR%/termcap

@%MC_LIBDIR%\bin\mc %1 %2 %3 %4 %5 %6 %7 %8 %9

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UNIX code used, common port PS, Win and OS/2 maybe no best choice,

OS/2 with EMX is in this time much better for porting Unix applications.

PC code variablles #ifdef _OS_NT, __os2__ or OS2_NT not used.

Build with emx 0.9c.

New variables: OS2EMX code specific for this port

OS2EMX_CHG maybe bugs or additions to MC code

ALTERNATIVE_CONSOLE runtime choice unix, X or OS specific

console

LOCAL_DRIVES system has local drives

chgdrive: "x:" or "cd x:"

HETER_NET heterogenous network ( no pure unix ),

drives on remote host etc.

path example: "/#mc:host/c:/home/work"

rem.chgdrive: "cd /#mc:host/d:"

OS_INFO local system identification string "OS/2"

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Partialy used code from the port for OS/2 by

Alexander Dong <ado@software-ag.de>

the PC port by

Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>

the passwd access library and GNU crypt library ported to OS/2 by

Kai Uwe Rommel <rommel@ars.muc.de>

the rpc library OS/2 port by

Holger Veit <Holger.Veit@gmd.de>

the Memory Mapped Files Emulation Layer v1.00 by

Maurilio Longo <md2520@mclink.it>

CONTACT

Midnight Commander Home : http://www.gnome.org/mc/

Bohumir Horeni <horeni@login.cz>

@Macarlo, Inc.
@Macarlo's Shareware & Web
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