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2030	Feature request:  unix pipe as VFS.	lvv		"I always wanted MC to be able to work with pipe-filelist.  For example, if we want to view all file from some package:

equery f wget | mc 

Command equery in Gentoo prints on stdout list of files belonging to a package.  

Another example. Let say we want tar current directory, but we need to skip several files:

find . | mc | tar cf  /tmp/t.tar  --files-from=-

We can just F8 unneeded files.  

MC can detect if its standard input is from pipe or use ""-"" argument. "	enhancement	new	trivial	Future Releases	mc-core	version not selected			gotar@…