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Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> 
> Nice going!  If I had 7 hours to spend on it, maybe I could make the same
> progress...   Why, oh why are these things
> *never* as easy as the (minimal) instructions make them look...

thinking the same think about mc. vfs_canon() in vfs.c can be recursive;
if HOME and TERM are not set meaningfully, it recurses, calling a string
copy function using malloc, until the system gags. suspect the first
project is beating the man style documentatation into info format so i
can rtfm.