On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Shaul Karl wrote:
> Trying to View (F3) a deb file from within mc (Midnight Commander)
> gives me a red Error box with the message: `Empty output from child
> filter'
>
> It seems to me that the problem is my respective lines in ~/.mc/bindings:
>
> [13:14:57 tmp]$ grep -A4 '# deb' ~/.mc/bindings
> # deb
> regex/\.deb$
> Open=%cd %p#deb
> View=%view{ascii} ar p %f control.tar.gz | tar xzO control ;
> echo "" ; echo "Filelist:" ; ar p %f data.tar.gz | tar tzv
>
> [13:15:04 tmp]$
>
>
> Do other get this Error? What are the correct lines?
It works fine for me (out of the box) for whatever version of mc
there is on 2.2r3. The only files I have in .mc are
-rw-r--r-- 1 1000 1000 35 Jul 7 11:36 Tree
-rw------- 1 1000 1000 514 Jul 7 11:36 history
Tree contains only
Midnight Commander TreeStore v 2.0
and history has some crap in it about the deb files I have accessed.
Did you add the above lines yourself? If so, take them out and it should
work. I have not customised mc at all, and it works for me.
Faheem.
