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Midnight Commander

August 14 2018
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tools,  linux,  freebsd 

Midnight Commander is a nice, text-mode file manager. When I invoked the tool via putty on my FreeBSD, I witnessed that the borders and boxes were garbled with ASCII characters.

The issue was resolved by invoking with additional parameters mc -ac.


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