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> Does anyone still use "mc" ?

Midnight Commander is great!

I use it for file management on my wife's iMac (I'm usually ssh'd in, while she uses the console). I also use it to keep her small business web site updated (it supports ftp, which is what my wife's web host uses).




> it supports ftp, which is what my wife's web host uses

Ouch!

By all means, please switch to a protocol of the 21th century!

Midnight commander supports secure protocols like SCP or SFTP as well.

Also, there's sshfs which allows you to handle the remote directory like a local one without any special features of mc (or KDE or Gnome). However, I don't know whether sshfs is available on the Mac.

Anyway, there's hardly any reason to use FTP, unless your hosting provider doesn't care a lot about security.


MacFUSE exists, and sshfs is usually the 'flagship' file system for FUSE, so I would gamble that it exists. It's off-topic, but a few years ago I remember someone creating a bunch of nifty file system plugins to MacFUSE to do things like create a file system that represented the open applications and/or windows on OSX. They seemed to be mostly tech demos, but I found it interesting.




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