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Re: Strange problem with MC (Attn: MC maintainer)


On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, landocalrissian wrote:

> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> Here's a funny thing that's been happening ever since I installed Cygwin
> here, and subscribed to this list:
> cat: /tmp/mc-Gregg: No such file or directory
> cat: C: No such file or directory
> cat: Levine/mc.pwd.1992: No such file or directory

This is a quoting bug in line 5 of the /usr/share/mc/bin/mc-wrapper.sh
script, which says:

	MC_PWD="`cat $MC_PWD_FILE`"

This should be

	MC_PWD="`cat "$MC_PWD_FILE"`"

MC maintainer, please note.  In the meantime, you can fix it in your local
copy.
	Igor

> As all of you can see, the program is attempting to parse the name that tmp
> lives in, inside my Documents and Setting folder, and then inside the local
> settings folder. And since the folder with my name on it is considered a
> "system folder", with those requirements and privleges, I can't rename it.
> What's interesting, is that it works normally, except for activities
> regarding access to the tmp directory. Are there any work arounds? If I'm
> bringing this to the wrong list, then I'll be happy to resend it to the
> proper one.
> Gregg C Levine landocalrissian atsign att dot net
> "This signature asks, "Where am I?"."

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