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Program name: Midnight Commander (macOS) (File manager) Midnight Commander (also known as GNU Midnight Commander) is a console file manager application with text user interface. It was started as a clone of then-popular Norton Commander. Web page: midnight-commander.org. Later versions of the Midnight Commander additionally have mouse support. Such versions are aware of GPM and X terminal emulators (such as GNOME Terminal or xterm) which support mouse reporting. When running inside an X terminal, these versions can update the name of the window in which Midnight Commander runs (if allowed by the terminal emulator). FreeCommander is not available for Mac but there are plenty of alternatives that runs on macOS with similar functionality. The most popular Mac alternative is Double Commander, which is both free and Open Source.If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to FreeCommander and many of them are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. We've put together five of our critical tools for IT operations, including Web Help Desk®, Dameware® Remote Support, Patch Manager, Serv-U® FTP, and Engineer’s Toolset™.
This is an edited version of a post that originally appeared on a blog called The Michigan Telephone Blog, which was written by a friend before he decided to stop blogging. It is reposted with his permission. Comments dated before the year 2013 were originally posted to his blog. We have used the information here to install Midnight Commander 4.8.10 under OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and also to install Midnight Commander 4.8.12 under MacOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and in both cases it was a quick and painless install, and works great!
Over the many months that this blog has been available, one of the most consistently popular posts has been, How to install Midnight Commander under Mac OS X (the easy way, using Rudix). Unfortunately, at the article notes, the developer of Rudix changed his package and while you can still use Rudix to install Midnight Commander on your Mac, it’s not quite as straightforward an installation as it once was.
This morning I received a comment from reader LouiSe on that article, that read as follows:
What do you think about an up2date universal binary installer package? … http://louise.hu/poet/tag/mc/
Midnight Commander Mac Os X
Well, if it works I think it’s a great idea, but I don’t have the time to fully test it and since I’m still running Leopard, I have no way to test it under Snow Leopard. So I’ll just throw it out there and say that if any of you would like to test it (at your own risk, of course) and see how well it works for you, I’d appreciate it if you’d leave a comment. For the time being, be as careful as you might be with any software from an unknown source. But if you’re daring enough to give it a try, this might indeed be the easiest way to get the latest version of Midnight Commander onto your Mac.
Midnight Commander Linux
Since Midnight Commander is free and available for virtually all versions of Linux, learning to use it now will put you a step ahead for the day when you get sick of being seen as a cash cow by Apple, and are ready to move on to a computer that runs Linux. Ubuntu Linux in particular has finally matured to the point that it is actually usable by non-geeky types, and the vast majority of the software in the Linux world is still free. I like free software, and I don’t like watching the “spinning beach ball of death” on my Mac Mini, so unless someone gives me a newer one as a gift or something (not likely), the Mac Mini I’m using now is probably going to be the last Mac I will ever own.