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From: tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.)
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Subject: ftp functions
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Date: Mon, 22-Jun-87 10:29:44 EDT
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   Date: Sat, 20 Jun 87 21:12:45 PDT
   From: silvlis!funk!zeev@Sun.COM (Ze'ev Wurman)

   Can anybody explain why various ftp functions do not try to read the
   ~/.netrc file if it exists and extract various userid/password data from
   there as regular ftp does? It would be necessary then to prompt only
   for host:fileid, which is obviously much handier. Current form still may
   be needed when one wants to ftp to a host existing in his .netrc file
   but to a different userid.

   Zeev
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   Silvar Lisco, 1080 Marsh Rd. Menlo Park, CA


No one has submitted the code yet.  

You could!!  Might have a look at the way .mailrc is handled in
rmail-mode, though you might think of a better way to do this.

-len