MISTAKE in /etc/mc/mc.menu file!!

[Andrew V. Samoilov]

Hello, Zeus!
. . .

>Both in lines 203 & 211 of the above mentioned file, the regular 
>expression fed to egrep command needs putting a backslash before the 
>"|" symbols (vertical slash?) in order for them to not lose their 
>special meaning in the expression. I've obtained this information 
>from the egrep manual.
>
There are no needs to put '\' before .z
Anyway these rules were rewritten without egrep and commited to CVS.

>    If not so, the command never finds no ".gz", ".z" or ".Z" 
>extension in the input files and don't pass the "-d" option. So, when 
>trying to decompress them with the "y" option in the User Menu, makes 
>nothing and returns error.
>
Well, but as far as I remember this worked fine for me. What OS/shell do 
you use?

Best regards,
Andrew.