From: Greg Velichansky <hmaon AT umiacs DOT umd DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Midnight Commander
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 10:16:01 -0400
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, bowman wrote:
> 
> > Is there any history here? The gnome.org page mentions an obsolete DOS
> > port that compiles under djgpp, but is buggy.
> 
> I'm not aware of any DOS 
> 
> > It seems to depend on tcl, or ncurses as a second choice.
> 
> DJGPP has a port of PDCurses which you could try.


Out of curiosity, why port midnight commander specifically?
DOS already has other NC clones, such as File Commander (OK, actually a
win32 prog.) and Volkov Commander. VC is good, I like it. Find it at
http://www2.dk-online.dk/users/Finn_Ekberg_Christiansen/volkov/volkov.html

hmaon