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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: MC problems
Date: 13 Jul 1996 10:22:00 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) wrote:
> > I just installed the mc package. It works fine, except if I try
> > to edit a file (pressing F4). I always get an error:
> >
> > missing }
>
> I've also stumpled across this once. It looked like an error in the
> mc setup files, but we eventually got it solved. Contact me at my
> *work* email address, please, i should be able to dig up this machine
> for you.
Btw., it turns out that mc apparently incorrectly uses ${SHELL}. As
long as this is set to a C-alike shell, it breaks. Set ${SHELL} to
/bin/sh, and it works. (Even from within a csh, naturally.)
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)