Maybe mandrake gives me crippleware. F5 will only copy the
file at the scroll bar; F1 'help' gives me one page telling
me didly. dont mention ins or plus, but thanx for the tip.
it tells me the f10 exits help, and tells me f1 gets help,
which I got acourse, but dont mention the others. I did
misread. saw F7 mkdir, thought F6 ReMov(dir
The convention I am used to with F1 gives me a table of
contents, and then the authors, license, legal jargon
either follows the table, or is at the end of the list.
this thing has that crap right there. Tells me to hit
enter if I want 'contents' and gives me a page or so
about moving around, but dont mention the tagging bit
at all. nor the asterisk.
F2 has some useful, but some cryptic stuff I either got
no clue, or no use for. I am not used to the F keys being
'toggles', I expect to use the esc key to 'go back', which
it does sometimes, but I dont see any reason it dont others.
F5 sometimes tells me I dont have permission to copy to a floppy.
but if I use the cli at the bottom, will anyway. I dunno how
I figured that out. It tells me to hit 'esc' to exit the help
viewer, but forgot to tell me I hadda do that twice.
Back in the Linux Mandrake User Guide and Reference manaul,
there is the list of figures.[period] no index. no mention
of MC. Nor is MC listed in Idiot's guide to Linux, nor in
Linux for Dummies.
This is the chronic complaint of newbies Marc. Linux can
do anything... if the newbie can figure out how. and How I
learn, almost all the time, is from guys like you defending
it with useful info that I cant _find_ anywhere else.
The alt.linux.mandrake list always has 'dumb newbie' questions.
if the info was organized better, that wouldnt be happening.
"Marc D. Williams" wrote:
> > I think there is more functionality missing in MC, but it dont
> > cometa mind right now, and- there may be more that MC can do that
> > I dont know about, but again, the documentation with DF is several
> > times bigger than that of MC.
> >
> I am sure I already sent a post like this the last time you or
> someone else said MC was lacking.
> Take the time to actually use it. Use F1 for help and you'll find
> all that stuff.
> A agree about MC's lack of documentation. I found out by accident
> that it has the ability to browse an audio CD like a normal
> directory where one can copy out a track as a wav file.
> Built-in CD ripping I suppose. Of course it requires you have
> the necessary tools (cdparanoia I think).
>
> I pretty much live within MC on Linux.
i used the F1 several times and didnt find it, but hey man, thanx
for the tips. Par of it is glitz. having a separate .doc file with
a dos tool may look crude, but it worked, and it didnt take me
long to realize that was the convention. the F1 thing in dos is
usually just a summation of what users want, with a separate .doc
that is extensive, but AFAIK with MC, missing.
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