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* configure.in: Remove support for curses libraries other than
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* acinclude.m4: Likewise.
* FAQ: Remove everything about UNIX curses.
* INSTALL: Likewise.
* configure.in: Enable large file support by default.
* NEWS: Mention it.
* INSTALL: Document it. Minor fixes.

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Midnight Commander
GNU Midnight Commander
Questions and Answers
The newest version of this document is available at
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/mc/FAQ?raw=1
* 1 Getting started
+ 1.1 What is Midnight Commander?
+ 1.2 Does it run on my machine?
+ 1.3 Does it work with my terminal?
+ 1.4 What else do I need to run MC?
+ 1.5 Is Midnight Commander Public Domain? Copyrighted?
+ 1.6 Where can I get Midnight Commander?
+ 1.5 Is GNU Midnight Commander Public Domain? Copyrighted?
+ 1.6 Where can I get GNU Midnight Commander?
+ 1.7 I don't have FTP access. Where can I get MC?
* 2 Keyboard
+ 2.1 What does documentation mean with the C-?, M-? and F?
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+ 11.1 Authorship
+ 11.2 Feedback is invited
+ 11.3 Disclaimer and copyright
1 Getting started
1.1 What is Midnight Commander?
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system while making many frequent file operations more efficient and
preserving the full power of the command prompt. You will wonder how
you could ever live without it.
For more thorough description take a look at the announcement of
Midnight Commander 4.0.
1.2 Does it run on my machine?
Yes, Midnight Commander can run on almost any machine, including Unix
clones, Windows 95/NT and OS/2. Midnight Commander does not run on
Macintosh.
Midnight Commander uses GNU Autoconf which can automatically
configure Midnight Commander for use on almost any (if not every)
Unix clone. Following configurations have been tested:
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* i386-*-windows-nt-3.51, 4.0
* i386-*-windows95
* i386-*-os2
Windows 95/NT port can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++, Borland
C++, RSX and Mingw32.
1.3 Does it work with my terminal?
Yes, it does.
Because Midnight Commander is a full screen program it doesn't run on
dummy terminals but anything more advanced will do (like vt100). If
your terminal works with vi, emacs, elm or pine it will work with
Midnight Commander.
1.4 What else do I need to run MC?
You need an Unix compatible operating system. Support for Windows 95/NT
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To compile any edition you need to have GLib installed. It's available
at ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/. Only GLib versions 1.2.x will be
currently detected.
If you want to use mouse on the Linux console you need the gpm daemon
from ftp://ftp.systemy.it/pub/develop/. You need nothing extra to use
mouse on xterm.
If you do not want to use the S-Lang library you could try using
ncurses (we recommend only version 4.1 and above).
You can get it along with other curses libraries, too, but results may
not be pretty or even usable.
1.5 Is Midnight Commander Public Domain? Copyrighted?
1.5 Is GNU Midnight Commander Public Domain? Copyrighted?
Midnight Commander is under GNU Public License which basically means
that you may freely copy, change and distribute it, but that you may
not impose any restrictions on further distribution, and that you must
make the source code available. This is not the same as Public Domain.
make the source code available. This is not the same as Public Domain.
For details, the GNU license is included in GNU Midnight Commander
source distribution (the COPYING file).
Midnight Commander is nowadays officially a part of GNU project. All
the authors of GNU Midnight Commander have given all their rights on
the program to the Free Software Foundation.
1.6 Where can I get Midnight Commander?
Midnight Commander is now officially a part of the GNU project.
All the authors of GNU Midnight Commander have given all their rights
on the program to the Free Software Foundation.
1.6 Where can I get GNU Midnight Commander?
The main site is ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/mc/
1.7 I don't have FTP access. Where can I get MC?
Most GNU/Linux distributions include GNU Midnight Commander. For
example, Debian, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware and SuSE.
2 Keyboard
2.1 What does documentation mean with the C-?, M-? and F? keys?
Midnight Commander documentation uses emacs style names for keyboard
keys.
GNU Midnight Commander documentation uses emacs style names for
keyboard keys.
C stands for the Ctrl key. For example, C-f means that you should hold
down the Ctrl key and press the f key.
M stands for the Meta key. Your terminal might call it Alt or Compose
instead of Meta. For example, M-f means that you should hold down the
Meta/Alt/Compose key and press the f key. If your terminal doesn't
have Meta, Alt or Compose or they don't work you can use Esc. For M-f
press the Esc key and then press the f key.
F? stands for a function key. If your terminal doesn't have function
keys or they don't work you can use Esc. For example, for F3 press the
Esc key and then press the 3 key.
2.2 Why don't function keys (or some other key) work?
Your terminfo or termcap database has missing or incorrect definitions
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database" you should install one of the enhanced terminfo databases
included in GNU Midnight Commander source distribution. For example,
if you are using xterm type "tic xterm.ti".
If the result is "using the S-Lang library with termcap database" you
should fix your /etc/termcap database.
Better termcap and terminfo databases are available here:
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/terminfo/
ftp://dickey.his.com/ncurses/
You can select whether Midnight Commander will use terminfo or termcap
database by giving --with-terminfo or --with-termcap option to the
configure. Default is terminfo if found, otherwise termcap.
If you don't have permissions to edit terminal databases you can use
Learn keys feature of Midnight Commander instead. Press Esc 9 o k and
follow instructions.
If all else fails you can emulate function keys by first pressing the
ESC key and then one of the number keys. For example, if you want to
produce F9, press ESC, then 9. If you don't have a ESC key on your
keyboard you can try alt-9 or meta-9.
2.3 How do I use function keys F11 to F20?
These can mapped to function keys F1 to F10 with Shift held. e.g.
function key F13 can be activated by pressing Shift-F3. You can define
the keys this way in the Options menu. The convention for PC keyboards
is that F11-20 always means Shift with F1-10
Note! Windows 95/NT and OS/2 ports use F11 and F12 keys to change the
current disk drive. In this case F11 and F12 mean the real F11 and F12
keys, not shift-F1 and shift-F2.
2.4 Why does the ESC key behave funny?
Midnight Commander uses the ESC key as a prefix for simulating the
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only if another key is pressed within 0.5 seconds. After 0.5 seconds
the ESC key cancels. There is no way to make ESC cancel immediately
(if we want to be able to use arrows keys and function keys).
2.5 How can I add the plus sign (+) on the command line?
Press C-q first, then press the + sign.
The plus key is the hotkey for the select files command. If you want
to add a literal plus on to the command line you must quote it by
pressing C-q first.
Another common key which needs the C-q prefix is backslash "\".
2.6 C-o doesn't work!
Maybe C-o is a stty control character on your terminal. See man stty
for details on how to list and change stty control characters.
2.7 What 'keys' are the "a1" and "c1" keys mentioned in the manual?
The "a1" key is the key which has the "a1" caption on it.
The "c1" key is the key which has the "c1" caption on it.
If you have to ask what these two keys are your keyboard hasn't
probably got them. Actually, I have never seen a keyboard which has
got them.
3 Mouse
3.1 How do I enable mouse support?
Invoke mc like this (without quotes): "mc -x". If this doesn't work
upgrade to a terminal which compatible with the Xterm mouse sequences.
Alternatively, on Linux console you can use gpm.
3.2 How do I cut and paste text with mouse?
Hold down shift key while using mouse to cut and paste.
3.3 How do I get the extension dependent pop-up menu to pop up?
It was developed for the GNOME edition. The text-mode edition doesn't
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This means that your terminfo databases do not contain the correct
definitions for your terminal.
You could try using a different terminal setting. If you use csh or
tcsh:
setenv TERM vt100
or if you use sh, bash, ksh or zsh:
export TERM=vt100
If this doesn't help you can recompile MC to use termcap instead of
terminfo:
./configure --with-termcap
make
4.2 Why don't line drawing characters work?
Since version 4.0.13 there's the command line option -a to force use of
+, |, - for line drawing (only available when compiled with S-Lang).
Use this -a option if any of the suggestions below doesn't help.
In general, there are three cases:
* Lines are shown as ASCII characters like this
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+---------+
This also happens when you use the -a option. Other than that
possible reason is 1, 2 or 3 (see below).
possible reason is 1 or 2 (see below).
* Lines are shown as lower case characters like this
lqqqqqqqqqk
x x
mqqqqqqqqqj
Possible reason is 2 or 3 (see below).
Possible reason is 1 or 2 (see below).
* Lines are shown as blanks or missing characters. Possible reason
is 3 or 4 (see below).
is 2 or 3 (see below).
The reason for the problem is one of following:
1. Your curses library might not support line drawing characters.
S-Lang, ncurses and SystemV curses do support them, BSD curses
doesn't. MC uses S-Lang by default so this is not usually a
problem.
2. Your terminal might not support line drawing characters. Vt100
1. Your terminal might not support line drawing characters. Vt100
compatible terminals, rxvt, xterm and color_xterm do support them.
3. Your terminfo or termcap database might have missing or incorrect
2. Your terminfo or termcap database might have missing or incorrect
definitions for line drawing characters. Set the acsc variable in
the terminfo database like this:
acsc=a\376k\277l\332m\300j\331n\305w\302v\301u\264t\303q\304x\263h
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character set. The octal values might be different for other
character sets. If you are using termcap instead of terminfo, you
should modify above solution appropriately.
4. Your terminal font might not support line drawing characters. Try
3. Your terminal font might not support line drawing characters. Try
changing the font.
Here is Miguel's answer to Torben on this subject.
Torben:
When I load consolefonts/iso01.f16, I get perfectly right national
characters, but the line drawing characters in mc get wrong. Is it
a mc problem, or is it a problem with the font? (I guess it is).
Is there a trick?
Miguel:
First of all, we should determine whether the font has line drawing
characters or not.
If it has line drawing characters, then a new terminfo entry should
be written for this specific case. Let's call this linux-iso01. The
acsc variable should be modified to reflect which characters are
used to do the line drawing.
If it does not have line drawing characters, then we should get rid
of the switch to acsc sequences and make the acsc sequence be just
a mapping to the ugly +, -, |, - characters.
You can get your terminfo definition by running the infocmp
program, making the proper changes and running the tic program to
compile your new terminfo database.
4.3 Can one use latin-1 characters without losing the lines?
Yes, you need a correct font and a correct termcap/terminfo database.
For font, if you use xterm try "xterm -fn fixed".
For termcap/terminfo database, change the acsc capability in the
database.
4.4 I have problems with entering/viewing national characters!
Upgrade to version 4.0.12 or newer.
From the Options - Display Bits dialog select Full 8 bits or ISO
8859-1. In addition, select 8 bit input from the same dialog.
4.5 How can I get colors?
Invoke mc like this (without quotes): "mc -c".
If you get colors, be happy.
If your terminal stays black and white, your terminal doesn't support
color. You might want to upgrade to a terminal which compatible with
the ANSI color sequences.
If your terminal goes completely black, see the next question.
More detailed answer:
First, check that your terminal supports color. color_xterm, rxvt and
Linux console do support, most other terminals don't. You can test
color support with following simple C program:
Check that your terminal supports color. color_xterm, rxvt and Linux
console do support, most other terminals don't. You can test color
support with following simple C program:
#include <stdio.h>
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Compile and run it. If you see "Hello world!" text in green your
terminal supports color, otherwise not (however, for color_xterm see
also the next question).
Second, check that you are using Ncurses or the S-Lang library (type
"mc -V" to find out), in addition some SystemV curses implementations
do support color, most don't.
Check whether you are using Ncurses or the S-Lang library (type
"mc -V" to find out).
With S-Lang library you can force color support by setting the
environment variable COLORTERM to any value.
Third, if you use ncurses library, check that your terminfo database
supports color. If not you should install one of the enhanced terminfo
If you use ncurses library, check that your terminfo database supports
color. If not, you should install one of the enhanced terminfo
databases included in GNU Midnight Commander source distribution.
Fourth, you might want to set the TERM environment variable so that
you use the correct terminfo database or termcap entry.
You might want to set the TERM environment variable so that you are
using the correct terminfo database or termcap entry.
If you use color_xterm (or rxvt) the correct value might be
xterm-color, xtermc or simply xterm.
If you use Linux console the correct value for TERM is linux or
console.
4.6 My color_xterm goes completely (or partially) black!
Some color_xterm terminals define all colors as black instead of the
standard ANSI colors. This makes them go completely black when you try
to use Midnight Commander with colors.
You will have to override the defaults. Create a file "color.defaults"
which has the following contents:
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(replace color_xterm with the name of your color_xterm, color_xterm
mentions its name in its title bar)
Now type:
xrdb -merge color.defaults
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file to your .Xdefaults or .Xresources file (or what ever the name of
your X configuration file is). Or you can replace your non-ANSI
color_xterm with an ANSI color_xterm.
4.7 Where can I get xterm or rxvt?
xterm is included with the X Window System, so you probably already
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variable to a value which has no corresponding entry in termcap
database those programs stop working. You should add the new value of
TERM to the termcap database.
Example: If you have set TERM to xterm-color locate from /etc/termcap
the line which starts:
@ -526,132 +520,132 @@ enough?
You might want to read the Unix-Haters Handbook at
http://catalog.com/hopkins/unix-haters/handbook.html. It lists many
more reasons why Unix sucks.
You can configure which terminal database you want to use with the
"--with-termcap" and "--with-terminfo" flags of configure. If you
don't specify them, the configure script will try to use terminfo if
available otherwise it will use termcap.
5 Graphical user interface
5.1 Xview, Tk and Gnome editions?
Xview and Tk and GNOME editions have been removed from the sources.
6 Command line problems
6.1 How do I stay in the last directory when I exit Midnight Commander?
See the description of the -P option in the Options section of the
manual.
6.2 How can I access command line history?
You can browse previous commands with M-p and M-n. Alternatively, you
can summon the command history listbox by pressing F9 c h.
Since version 4.1.15 all the input widgets have permanent history. You
can summon the history listbox by pressing M-h.
6.3 How can I complete commands, file names, variable names and so on?
Just press M-Tab. Press M-Tab again to get a listbox if there are
multiple possible completions.
6.4 I am using ksh. Can I use functions defined in the .kshrc within MC?
Sorry, MC only supports bash, tcsh and zsh functions. Ksh functions
are not supported because ksh lacks the necessary hooks needed for
subshell integration.
Switch to bash or zsh. They are both quite compatible with ksh. Your
ksh functions should work as such or after minimal changes.
6.5 Is there any way to include additional options or hot keys to MC?
Yes, F2 invokes an user menu which fully configurable. You can add
any shell commands to the user menu. See the mc(1) man page for more
info.
Another way to add functionality is the external panelize feature.
See the mc(1) man page for more info.
And finally, you can code any feature you want yourself. MC source
code is free which means you can change it anyway you want. There are
some limitations to make sure MC stays free. See GNU General Public
License for details.
7 Virtual file systems
Note! Virtual file systems are supported by Unix ports only. The
Windows 95/NT and OS/2 ports do NOT support virtual file systems. This
means you haven't got ftp, zip or tar support on Windows 95/NT and
OS/2.
This chapter describes the behavior of the 4.1.x versions of the
Midnight Commander. The behavior of the 4.5.x versions is somewhat
different. More on that when the 4.5.x versions get more stable.
7.1 How can I see the contents of a tar archive?
If you use keyboard just move the selection bar on the tar file and
press enter.
If you use mouse just double-click on the tar file.
If these procedures don't work, your .mc.ext file is faulty. Replace
it with one from the MC source distribution.
You can also enter a tar archive by typing "cd tar:filename.tar.gz"
where filename.tar.gz is the name of the archive.
The recognized suffixes for tar archives are .tar, .tar.gz and .tgz.
If your tar archive uses different suffix you have to rename it.
7.2 How do I get out of a tar archive?
Just press enter on the toplevel ".." file or chdir to a non-tar
directory. Just typing "cd" with no parameters is enough (it will take
you to your home directory).
7.3 How do I do anonymous ftp with MC?
Just type "cd ftp://hostname" where hostname is the name of the host
you want to connect. Alternatively, select FTP link from the Left or
Right menu and type the name of the host you want to connect.
7.4 How do I do non-anonymous ftp with MC?
Non-anonymous ftp works just like the anonymous ftp but you give the
login name with the host name. For example, type "cd
ftp://username@hostname".
7.5 How do I close an ftp connection?
Just chdir to a non-ftp directory. Just typing "cd" with no parameters
is enough (it will take you to your home directory).
Internally Midnight Commander closes ftp connection only after a
timeout. This isn't visible to the end user.
7.6 Why aren't the contents of ftp panel updated?
Update is skipped because there would be a serious performance
penalty. Constantly updating directory panels through a ftp connection
would take too much time.
You can use C-r to force an update.
7.7 What kind of proxy server works with Midnight Commander?
There are two kinds of ftp proxies: proxies for ftp clients and
proxies for web browsers.
Midnight Commander only supports ftp proxies which are meant for ftp
clients. Common WWW proxies (like Squid) are not supported. A rule of
thumb is that if a ftp proxy works with a web browser, it won't work
with Midnight Commander.
8 Other common problems
8.1 How do I get the internal editor to work?
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The F4 key used to default to an external editor because that was what
most people were used to. The newer versions use internal editor by
default.
To use the internal editor with an old version, select Configuration
from the Options menu and check the 'use internal edit' option.
Alternatively add the line
use_internal_edit=1
under the [Midnight-Commander] section in your .mc.ini file (which is
in your home directory).
To make the editor work all the time, go to the default/* section in
the file lib/mc/mc.ext file and remove the line
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The internal editor will now be invoked for anything not specified
elsewhere in the mc.ext file.
Make sure that you edit the correct mc.ext file. The Midnight
Commander first checks the existence of $HOME/.mc.ext. If this file is
missing MC will use $prefix/lib/mc/mc.ext instead ($prefix can be
changed with configure before compilation and it defaults to
/usr/local).
When you run `F9/Command/Extension file edit' for the very first time
Midnight Commander copies the system-wide mc.ext from $prefix/lib/mc
into your home directory because you need write access in order to
change it.
And please don't forget that "make install" overwrites
$prefix/lib/mc/mc.ext.
8.2 Is there any way to 'bookmark' favorite ftp-fs links?
Use the directory hotlist. Just press control-backslash. If your
national keyboard layout doesn't have backslash key, just press the
control key with the key which is the backslash key in the English
keyboard layout.
8.3 Why I keep getting: "There is no disk in the drive. Please insert a disk
into drive D:"?
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configuration files from the D:\MC directory and if the D: drive is a
removable drive (like a CD ROM drive) and there is no disk in drive
you get this message every time you try to do anything.
Since version 4.0.6 you can specify the actual location of the
Midnight Commander configuration files with the MCHOME environment
variable.
8.4 When I start Midnight Commander, nothing happens!
First, invoke MC without subshell support: "mc -u". If this helps
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although tcsh and zsh are also supported. You might want to upgrade
your shell to a newer version. If you use something else than bash,
tcsh or zsh, subshell support is disabled automatically.
If disabling subshell doesn't help, try to reconfigure MC with
"--with-included-slang" and "--with-termcap" options and recompile.
If this helps, there is something wrong with your terminfo database
or shared S-Lang library. For better terminfo databases see chapter
4. For a better S-Lang library, upgrade to a newer version or keep
using the "--with-included-slang" option.
This problem can also be caused by gpm as noted by Luis Espinoza:
In regards to why Midnight Commander does nothing when invoked. I
recently had the same problem. At the same time gpm was not loading
properly with my patched kernel (now 2.0.33 from 2.0.30).
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* Paul Sheer (joined Nov 1 1996)
* Norbert Warmuth
* Alex I. Tkachenko
Alessandro Rubini has been specially helpful with debugging and
enhancing of the mouse support. John E. Davis has made his S-Lang
library available to us and answered many questions about it.
Many people have contributed bug reports, feature suggestions and
small code bits (alphabetical order):
* Thomasz Cholewo
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* Vadim Sinolits
* Jon Stevens
* Adam Tla/lka
9.2 Do I dare to use a development version?
I am afraid you have to answer to this question yourself. Development
versions seldom cause data loss but they have usually got many bugs.
It's up to you to judge whether new features outweigh the bugs.
9.3 How can I report a bug/request for a feature?
You might first want to get the newest development version to see if
the bug is fixed or the feature is added already.
Send your report/request to mc-devel@gnome.org or mc@gnome.org. These
mailing lists are the most certain way to contact the
developers. Remember to mention if you are not on the mailing list
to make sure that you will receive a copy of replies.
Give as much details as possible. A too long message is a lot better
than a too short message.
For segmentation faults a stack backtrace is appreciated. You can
produce stack backtrace as follows:
* If segmentation fault produced a core file:
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command in your shell to allow producing of the core files.
Usually it is "limit coredumpsize unlimited" or "ulimit
coredumpsize" or "ulimit -c unlimited".
9.4 How can I join the development?
To join the development just code the feature you want to add and send
your patch for inclusion. Email address is mc-devel@gnome.org.
Before you start coding check the latest development version. It might
be that your feature has already been implemented.
Note that the authors of GNU Midnight Commander have given all their
rights on the program to the Free Software Foundation. You will have
to do the same if you contribute non-trivial patches. Otherwise we
have to reject your patches in order to avoid copyright problems.
10 More information
10.1 This document didn't answer my question. Where else can I look for an
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Read messages from the Discussion (mailing list archive) or read the
Manual.
Upgrade to a newer version of Midnight Commander. Many problems are
fixed in the new versions.
If you still can't find an answer, post your question to the Midnight
Commander mailing list. Its address is mc@gnome.org.
10.2 What mailing lists are there for Midnight Commander?
Following mailing lists discuss about Midnight Commander:
mc@gnome.org
General discussion of GNU Midnight Commander
To subscribe visit
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc/
mc-devel@gnome.org
Technical development discussion
To subscribe visit
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc-devel/
10.3 Where should I look on the World Wide Web for MC stuff?
There is a WWW page for Midnight Commander. The URL is:
http://www.gnome.org/mc/
10.4 Are the mailing lists archived anywhere?
The mc and mc-devel lists are archived on the World Wide Web. There are
links to the archives on the mailing list pages (see 10.2).
11 Legal issues
11.1 Authorship
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Questions and Answers was written by Janne Kukonlehto. Parts of it
originate from Ian Jackson, Miguel de Icaza, Dugan Porter, Norbert
Warmuth and Paul Sheer.
11.2 Feedback is invited
Send your comments about this document and GNU Midnight Commander to
mc@gnome.org
11.3 Disclaimer and copyright
Note that this document is provided as is. The information in it is
not warranted to be correct; you use it at your own risk.
You can use Questions and Answers according to GNU Public License (see
the COPYING file in GNU Midnight Commander source distribution).
Questions and Answers is not public domain.

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@ -172,9 +172,6 @@ better than everything else),
example, if you have installed ncurses under /gnu/lib and
/gnu/include, you specify: --with-ncurses=/gnu
Support for traditional UNIX curses (not ncurses) is obsolete and will be
removed.
Run `configure --help' to see the full list of options.
On systems that require unusual options for compilation or linking
@ -343,18 +340,11 @@ Midnight Commander. The included library is very stable and has been
used for years without problems. You shouldn't expect any problems
porting S-Lang to your platform.
Another possibility is to download and install ncurses on your OS. The
Midnight Commander can use ncurses as well as the display engine. However,
you may encounter minor differences, for instance, you will be unable to
force the color mode by giving the "-c" switch to GNU Midnight Commander.
As the last resort, you may try to use the curses library supplied with
your OS. Beware that some systems, e.g. SystemV Release 4, include the
curses library with bugs critical to GNU Midnight Commander. You may try
to recompile all your source code with the symbol BUGGY_CURSES defined,
i.e.
make clean; make CFLAGS="-g -O -DBUGGY_CURSES"
Another possibility is to download and install ncurses on your OS.
GNU Midnight Commander can use ncurses as well as the display engine.
However, you may encounter minor differences, for instance, you will
be unable to force the color mode by giving the "-c" switch to GNU
Midnight Commander.
Obtaining the missing pieces of GNU Midnight Commander
@ -402,19 +392,3 @@ And the GNU Compiler Collection may be obtained from the following sites:
ftp://gcc.gnu.org/pub/gcc/releases/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gcc/
http://gcc.gnu.org/mirrors.html
Unsupported, deprecated and possibly broken options to configure:
-----------------------------------------------------------------
`--with-vcurses[=directory]'
Use this flag to force GNU Midnight Commander to use a SystemV
type curses, the optional directory specifies where the compiler
should look for the include files.
`--with-sunos-curses'
You use this flag on SunOS machines if you want to force using
SunOS 4.x curses.
`--with-bsd-curses'
If you don't want to use ncurses and are using an Ultrix box, you
can use this switch. Be aware that ncurses is a better option
than the curses included in Ultrix.

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@ -613,38 +613,6 @@ fi
rm -f conftest*]
)
AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_SUNOS_CURSES], [
search_ncurses=false
screen_manager="SunOS 4.x /usr/5include curses"
AC_MSG_RESULT([Using SunOS 4.x /usr/5include curses])
AC_DEFINE(USE_SUNOS_CURSES)
AC_DEFINE(NO_COLOR_CURSES)
AC_DEFINE(USE_SYSV_CURSES)
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I/usr/5include"
XCURSES="xcurses.o /usr/5lib/libcurses.a /usr/5lib/libtermcap.a"
AC_MSG_RESULT([Please note that some screen refreshs may fail])
AC_MSG_WARN([Reconsider using Slang])
])
AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_OSF1_CURSES], [
AC_MSG_RESULT([Using OSF1 curses])
search_ncurses=false
screen_manager="OSF1 curses"
AC_DEFINE(NO_COLOR_CURSES)
AC_DEFINE(USE_SYSV_CURSES)
XCURSES="xcurses.o"
LIBS="$LIBS -lcurses"
])
AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_SYSV_CURSES], [
AC_MSG_RESULT([Using SysV curses])
AC_DEFINE(USE_SYSV_CURSES)
XCURSES=""
search_ncurses=false
screen_manager="SysV/curses"
LIBS="$LIBS -lcurses"
])
AC_DEFUN([AC_USE_TERMINFO], [
AC_DEFINE(SLANG_TERMINFO)
AC_MSG_RESULT([Using SLang screen manager/terminfo])

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@ -308,51 +308,6 @@ search_ncurses=false
XCURSES=""
AC_SUBST(XCURSES)
dnl AC_ARG_WITH(bsd-curses,
dnl [--with-bsd-curses Used to compile with bsd curses, not very fancy],
dnl [search_ncurses=false
dnl screen_manager="Ultrix/cursesX"
dnl case $host_os in
dnl ultrix*)
dnl THIS_CURSES=cursesX
dnl ;;
dnl *)
dnl THIS_CURSES=curses
dnl ;;
dnl esac
dnl
dnl LIBS="$LIBS -l$THIS_CURSES -ltermcap"
dnl AC_DEFINE(USE_BSD_CURSES)
dnl XCURSES="xcurses.o"
dnl AC_MSG_RESULT([Please note that some screen refreshs may fail])
dnl AC_MSG_WARN([Use of the bsdcurses extension has some])
dnl AC_MSG_WARN([display/input problems.])
dnl AC_MSG_WARN([Reconsider using xcurses])
dnl])
AC_ARG_WITH(sunos-curses,
[--with-sunos-curses Used to force SunOS 4.x curses],[
if test x$withval = xyes; then
AC_USE_SUNOS_CURSES
fi
])
AC_ARG_WITH(osf1-curses,
[--with-osf1-curses Used to force OSF/1 curses],[
if test x$withval = xyes; then
AC_USE_OSF1_CURSES
fi
])
AC_ARG_WITH(vcurses,
[--with-vcurses[=incdir] Used to force SysV curses],
[if test x$withval = xyes; then :
else
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$withval"
fi
AC_USE_SYSV_CURSES
])
mouse_lib="xterm only"
LGPM=""
case $host_os in
@ -714,38 +669,9 @@ then
AC_NCURSES(/usr/include/ncurses, curses.h, -lncurses, -I/usr/include/ncurses -DRENAMED_NCURSES, "renamed ncurses on /usr/include/ncurses")
dnl
dnl We couldn't find ncurses, try SysV curses
dnl
if $search_ncurses
then
AC_EGREP_HEADER(init_color, /usr/include/curses.h,
AC_USE_SYSV_CURSES)
AC_EGREP_CPP(USE_NCURSES,[
#include <curses.h>
#ifdef __NCURSES_H
#undef USE_NCURSES
USE_NCURSES
#endif
],[
CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -DRENAMED_NCURSES"
AC_DEFINE(USE_NCURSES)
search_ncurses=false
screen_manager="ncurses installed as curses"
])
fi
dnl
dnl Try SunOS 4.x /usr/5{lib,include} ncurses
dnl The flags USE_SUNOS_CURSES, USE_BSD_CURSES and BUGGY_CURSES
dnl should be replaced by a more fine grained selection routine
dnl
if $search_ncurses
then
if test -f /usr/5include/curses.h
then
AC_USE_SUNOS_CURSES
fi
:
else
# check for ncurses version, to properly ifdef mouse-fix
AC_MSG_CHECKING([for ncurses version])