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mcview (1)

Name

mcview - Internal file viewer of GNU Midnight Commander.

Synopsis

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Description

MCVIEW(1)                   GNU Midnight Commander                   MCVIEW(1)



NAME
       mcview - Internal file viewer of GNU Midnight Commander.

USAGE
       mcview [-bcCdfhstVx?] file

DESCRIPTION
       mcview  is  a  link  to mc, the main GNU Midnight Commander executable.
       Executing GNU Midnight Commander under this name requests  staring  the
       internal viewer and opening the file specified on the command line.

OPTIONS
       -b     Force black and white display.

       -c     Force color mode on terminals where mcview defaults to black and
              white.

       -C <keyword>=<fgcolor>,<bgcolor>,<attributes>:<keyword>= ...
              Specify a different color set.  See the Colors section in  mc(1)
              for more information.

       -d     Disable mouse support.

       -f     Display  the  compiled-in  search  paths  for Midnight Commander
              files.

       -t     Used only if the code was compiled with S-Lang and terminfo:  it
              makes  the Midnight Commander use the value of the TERMCAP vari-
              able for the terminal information instead of the information  on
              the system wide terminal database

       -V     Displays the version of the program.

       -x     Forces xterm mode.  Used when running on xterm-capable terminals
              (two screen modes, and able to send mouse escape sequences).

COLORS
       The default colors may be changed by appending  to  the  MC_COLOR_TABLE
       environment  variable.   Foreground  and background colors pairs may be
       specified for example with:

       MC_COLOR_TABLE="$MC_COLOR_TABLE:\
       normal=lightgray,black:\
       selected=black,green"

FILES
       /usr/share/mc/mc.hlp

              The help file for the program.

       /usr/share/mc/mc.ini

              The default system-wide setup for GNU Midnight  Commander,  used
              only if the user's own ~/.config/mc/ini file is missing.

       /usr/share/mc/mc.lib

              Global  settings  for  the Midnight Commander.  Settings in this
              file affect all users, whether  they  have  ~/.config/mc/ini  or
              not.

       ~/.config/mc/ini

              User's  own setup.  If this file is present, the setup is loaded
              from here instead of the system-wide startup file.

LICENSE
       This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU  General  Public
       License as published by the Free Software Foundation.  See the built-in
       help of the Midnight Commander for details on the License and the  lack
       of warranty.

AVAILABILITY
       The  latest  version  of  this  program can be found at http://ftp.mid-
       night-commander.org/.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Availability   | file/mc          |
       +---------------+------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
       +---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
       mc(1), mcedit(1)

BUGS
       Bugs should be reported to http://www.midnight-commander.org/.



NOTES
       This    software    was    built    from    source     available     at
       https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.    The  original  community
       source  was  downloaded  from   http://www.midnight-commander.org/down-
       loads/mc-4.8.13.tar.bz2

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.midnight-commander.org/.



MC Version 4.8.13                 March 2014                         MCVIEW(1)