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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
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Subject: Re: All Hail Midnight Commander!
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Farley Flud wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> Midnight Commander is, hands down, the absolute best file manager+
> for GNU/Linux:
>
> https://midnight-commander.org/
>
> _I_ use it exclusively and therefore it MUST be damned good.
>
> MC is fast and versatile and beats ALL that GUI shit that the
> crippled distros offer.
>
> But MC was once, not too long ago, on the verge of extinction.
> However, concerned people got together to bring it back and
> are continuing to maintain it.
>
> Lets give a hearty hail to these MC developers.  They, as well
> as countless and nameless others, make GNU/Linux truly the greatest
> OS in the history of technical man.
>
> <snip>

If I'm going to use an ncurses file manager, I'll use vifm. Like mc, it
can inspect zip files.

However, mostly I get by quite well with cdargs, find, grep, bash completion,
and common unix commands like cp, rm, rmdir, and mv.

All you mc lackeys better shut the fsck up!  :-D

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