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["Greg Mayman" <gmone AT tpg.com.au>]

On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:39:02 +0000, Lee Forrest wrote:

>> I was using mc to browse the system, and pressed F3 to view the file. mc
>> said it needed lynx.

> Just cd to rute.html (not with mc - F10 to get rid of it) and enter:

> links .

Yes, my friend I _do_ know how to do that. 

It was one of the first things I learned when I started using BL3 a few
weeks back.

Midnight Commander was recommended to me to browse, edit text files,
move files and so on. So I installed it.

It was just a slight nuisance that it wouldn't let me view HTML files
until I had installed lynx.

It is one helluva lot more nuisance to have to quit mc, cd to the
appropriate directory (typed in by hand, of course) and load links just
to do something that pressing F3 can now do from within mc.

If Midnight Commander is so terrible, why is it on the BL3 Add-ons site?

Why is it so wrong for me to want to view HTML from within mc?



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