A fix for the F3 /var/log bug...

[Alfie Costa]

An attempted practical fix for a longstanding bug and/or nuisance. 
Earlier I posted it to a Debian buglist, but the Debian maintainer is 
presently silent, so...

In 'mc', hitting F3 or 'Enter' doesn't work right for files in /var/log. 
  There was a thread about this on 'mc-devel' in June 2001:

	Viewer config (was: TODO list for the next version)
	http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc-devel/2001-June/msg00032.html

...their prognosis was pessimistic.

The fix is described (with a patch for '/etc/mc/mc.ext') here:

	Debian Bug report logs - #179350
	mc hangs viewing a .gz file
	http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=179350

(It's about the fourth message down.)

Please CC: replies  (if any) to agcosta at gmx.net, as I don't subscribe to 
'mc-devel'.

------- version data ----------
Debian 'mc' version: 1:4.6.0-4
 >mc --version
GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.0
Virtual File System: tarfs, extfs, cpiofs, ftpfs, fish
With builtin Editor
Using included S-Lang library with terminfo database
With subshell support as default
With support for background operations
With mouse support on xterm and Linux console
With internationalization support