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New mc packages are available for Fedora Core 3

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2004-514
2004-12-07
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Product : Fedora Core 3
Name : mc
Version : 4.6.1
Release : 0.11FC3
Summary : User-friendly text console file manager and visual shell.
Description :
Midnight Commander is a visual shell much like a file manager, only with many more features. It is a text mode application, but it also includes mouse support if you are running GPM. Midnight Commander's best features are its ability to FTP, view tar and zip files, and to poke into RPMs for specific files.



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Update Information:

The updated version of Midnight Commander contains finished CAN-2004-0494 security fixes in extfs scripts and has better support for UTF-8, contains subshell prompt fixes and enhanced large file support.

The version is also one of the release candidates: mc-4.6.1-pre1a.

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* Wed Dec 01 2004 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com 4.6.1-0.11FC3

- update from CVS
- fix #141095 - extraction of symlinks from tarfs is now fine
- add growbuf patch from Roland Illig #141422 to view files in /proc and /sys properly

* Wed Nov 24 2004 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com 4.6.1-0.10

- update from CVS
- update promptfix patch, drop upstreamed strippwd patch
- add badsize patch to fix displaying of filesizes >2GB
- sync UTF-8 patches with upstream
- replace autogen.sh style with configure

* Fri Nov 12 2004 Jindrich Novy jnovy@redhat.com

- convert man pages to UTF-8 (#138871)


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This update can be downloaded from:
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/3/

bb832b8f8ea36357a0cdb30e594c7d2f SRPMS/mc-4.6.1-0.11FC3.src.rpm
367e2f6ee54d4cdfebccb5855c6c9ddf x86_64/mc-4.6.1-0.11FC3.x86_64.rpm
07f2468bd781b534f222c6099fa1d946 x86_64/debug/mc-
debuginfo-4.6.1-0.11FC3.x86_64.rpm
d16cbbf94efe2f77a9ed63fe66467d08 i386/mc-4.6.1-0.11FC3.i386.rpm
37d33fe20531bb6779e5805662056ad8 i386/debug/mc-
debuginfo-4.6.1-0.11FC3.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.