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From: stephan@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de (Stephan Forth)
Subject: Re: MC problems
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Message-ID: <1996Jul15.185156.27733@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de>
References: <1996Jul7.114523.24917@forthdv.pfm-mainz.de> <4s7tc8$n33@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 18:51:56 GMT
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J Wunsch (j@uriah.heep.sax.de) wrote:
: 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.)
Yes it does! I setenv SHELL to /bin/sh and all works fine!
Thanks!
Regards, Stephan
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