Everyone, I just thought I'd take a moment to express one user's appreciation for Midnight Commander. Recently I undertook the project of converting archived word processing files for >100 of our press's books to text so that we could use them for searching and retrieval on our internal Web server. The conversion could not be fully automated because of inconsistencies in the files, so I had to spend a lot of time fixing things by hand.
Midnight Commander made the process much quicker and easier, since I could move swiftly from source to target directories and perform various shell commands and editing operations from within MC. This was the first time I had explored the full power of MC, and I was very impressed at the feature set--every time I thought "now, it would be nice if I could do X," a look at the documentation or the menus showed that "X" was indeed possible. Sometimes media coverage of Linux and the Open Source movement gives the impression that it is just a plaything for hackers--I'm here to testify that high-quality free software makes all the difference in the world to people like us, nonprofit publishers without much budget for software purchase. Best wishes, David Sewell -- David Sewell, Project Editor The University Press of Virginia PO Box 400318, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4318 USA Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 434 924 6066 _______________________________________________ Mc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc
