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Posted: **Sat 30 Jul 2005, 19:27**

Hey, this should be an easy one for someone knowledgable to answer.

Despite the fact that there's a dot-pup of Midnight Commander, I recently downloaded the 1.05alpha release of Puppy and am experimenting with compiling programs.

So, I have installed MC from source, and was wondering what I should put in a script to lauch MC in a terminal without having to first open the terminalk, then type "mc".

Something like (and i'm guessing here, i know that it's not correct)

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{xterminal emulator} mc

Please help this fumbling newbie, can't seem to help myself today....

Any help deeply appreciated

EDIT:
I know that to run a program like XMMS, which isn't dependent on a terminal to run, I could write

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#!/bin/sh
xmms

...but MC seems dependent on the xterm or whatever.... hmmm

Posted: **Sat 30 Jul 2005, 21:00**

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xterm -e mc

should do the trick

Posted: **Sat 30 Jul 2005, 21:08**

Doopdoop, that worked, thanks a bundle.

I had seen that somewhere before, but couldn't seem to use my powers of recollection or searching prowess to find the answer myself...

Thanks!

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