BusyBox ash as subshell for mc (midnight commander)?

[Alexander Kriegisch]

[re-send to list because reply-to header was wrong as usual]

MC has been part of Freetz for many years. Lately we even upgraded it to
4.8.2.

Alexander Kriegisch

Am 01.03.2012 um 15:13 schrieb "ralda at gmx.de" <ralda at gmx.de>:

> Hi Alexander!
> 
>> Sorry, I wanted to send my message to the list, but the reply-to was
>> wrong - it has been annoying me for a long time on that list.
>> Depending on who answers the messages, you have to be careful to use
>> "reply to all". :-(
> 
> Sorry, may be I didn't look for that either.
> 
>> Anyway, fancy prompt is active and does not help. To use full desktop
>> settings is not an option in my embedded environment. I would
>> appreciate if you found out what exactly needs to be configured in BB
>> or patched in MC in order to get this to work.
> 
> I can look into this, but it will need at least several weeks until I'm
> able to get access to my old archives. Had some major hardware failures
> in January and had to swap things around. Have currently only very
> limited hardware capabilities. Need to replace and reorganize several
> things to be on the safe side and do not lose valuable data. So
> anything I can do at the moment is to tell informations still in my
> brain.
> 
>> http://freetz.org
> 
> Are you going to add mc to freetz? ... wow ... that may swap some of my
> priorities.
> 
> --
> Harald