Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-07 Thread Joost Kooij
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) writes: It's Debian policy (afaik) that as little as possible should go into stable after release, and *definitely* as little as possible, if any, new upstream releases. This is very wise but i'd expect as well that

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, David Puryear wrote: On 05-Jul-97 Paul Seelig wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Puryear) writes: In your /etc/mc/mc.ext you should have these: # deb regex/\.deb$ Open=%cd deb:%d/%p/ View=%view{ascii} dpkg-deb -c %f A

mc problem - solved

1997-07-06 Thread Dima
Hi 1) Please disregard my previous posting with lots of Perl and stuff: I was falling asleep when I posted that. I'm attaching a patch for /usr/local/lib/mc/extfs/deb (or wherever it is on your box) below. Note that the patch has Y2K bug, which leads me to 2) Is there a function in Perl to

Re: mc problem - solved

1997-07-06 Thread Dima
As Lindsay pointed out, the patch in my previous post will break *.deb viewer for those who have tar-1.11. Be very afraid and do `dpkg -l tar` before applying the patch. :) (patch works for tar-1.12-1) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: mc problem - solved

1997-07-06 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hi 1) Please disregard my previous posting with lots of Perl and stuff: I was falling asleep when I posted that. I'm attaching a patch for /usr/local/lib/mc/extfs/deb (or wherever it is on your box) below. Note that the patch has Y2K bug, which leads me to 2) Is there a function in

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lindsay Allen) writes: In another interesting note, when I replace mc.ext from mc-4 source to /etc/mc/mc.ext, *.deb and *.tar.gz browsing is lot faster using mc_3.5.17-1_i386.deb:) If you are wondering why I didn't keep mc-4, I like to keep this system *.deb format

Re: mc problem - solved

1997-07-06 Thread Dima
Alex Yukhimets wrote: How about: $Mon=(Jan,Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec)[$mm-1] || bad_thing; ? I did, patch's below. I'd rather use an existing function if there was one -- must be a software engineer in me (типа внутренний шпион). -- Dimitri --- deb.origSun Jul 6

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Randy Edwards
On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: Note that there is an *unofficial* Debian mc-4.0 binary provided by me available on the regular Midnight Commander FTP sites, which can be installed within the regular Debian package management. Paul, for someone who is ignorant of the regular MC ftp sites

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randy Edwards) writes: On 6 Jul 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: Note that there is an *unofficial* Debian mc-4.0 binary provided by me available on the regular Midnight Commander FTP sites, which can be installed within the regular Debian package management. Paul, for

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread James Troup
[ Redirected to debian.user at Paul Seelig's insistence ] Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No. New upstream versions do not go into stable without *very* good reason. Well, the current mc-3.5.17 is an *old* development version which has since long been superseded by some 31

Re: mc problem - solved.

1997-07-06 Thread Paul Seelig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Troup) writes: [ Redirected to debian.user at Paul Seelig's insistence ] Thanks a lot! :-) Paul Seelig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, the current mc-3.5.17 is an *old* development version which has since long been superseded by some 31 following