Norton Commander?
Daniel Hedblom
hedblom at djupo.com
Wed Oct 16 02:57:18 UTC 2002
Björn Eriksson wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 10:09:42PM +0000, Daniel Hedblom wrote:
>
>
>>Why arent there any references to Norton Commander, the application that
>>Midnight Commander stems from? I use MC because i have used NC since its
>>first version on DOS long ago. I think it would be fair to atleast
>>reference Nortons application since that in its time was groundbreaking.
>>When i found MC in linux i akmost jumped of joy since i could do
>>everything without any hassle whatsoever since MC is almost identical to NC.
>>
>>
>
>Here's a cut from the first page of README:
>
> Features
> --------
>
> GNU Midnight Commander was conceived as a free clone of John Socha's
> Norton Commander (TM). It also takes the best from more recent software
> with similar interfaces. GNU Midnight Commander comes with mouse support
> on xterm and optionally on the Linux console.
>
>
>
>
Ohh, that i missed, big ooops! I just reacted to what i saw as an
attempt to take credit for someone elses idea wich is a thing i hate no
matter where it come from. Now i see that that clearly was not the case
so ill just shut up now. MC rocks no matter what. It should be a base
tool in all the dists because anyone can use its editor. Boy is it hard
to learn vi on the fly.
=)
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