Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!rpi.edu!tale From: tale@pawl.rpi.edu (David C Lawrence) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: ftp-find-file Keywords: GNU Message-ID: Date: 9 May 89 21:13:48 GMT Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Reply-To: tale@pawl.rpi.edu Distribution: comp Lines: 44 Sorry to post this but mail bounced. Our mailer puked all over the extended bang path, I tried to make it a single hop ...%...@... path and that failed too. I will be very happy when UUCP finally goes away. ld kelly wrote me with a problem he is having with ftp-find-file. This is my mailed reply. To: ldk%punjab@shamash.cdc.com (ld kelley x-2046) Subject: Re: running vi inside GNU emacs In-Reply-To: Your message of Tue, 09 May 89 09:05:17 -0500. <8905091405.AA06204@punjab.udev.cdc.com> Hmm ... I wish I could see your problem in action. Normally the sequence goes like this (you can try it as an example). M-x ftp-find-file pawl.rpi.edu:pub/unixpub.lst anonymous ldk@shmash.cdc.com FTP will give you a message that it is starting the process and connecting to the machine. When it opens the file for reading it will give another message. If the file is successfully opened then it will tell you that it is retrieving it in the background. (Very useful for large files.) Finally another message will appear when it closes the file and the connexion. There should be two buffers created by this process, one named *ftp log* and the other which includes the name of the file you found and "(ftp)" (or something, I forget). The former will hold statistics about the transfer and any messages ftp gave. The latter should have your file in it. Now, if I understand you correctly, you tried this and it doesn't work, eh? Could you try the above and get back to me if it doesn't work? Dave PS: your machine does support ftp, ne? If it does (which means you have TCP/IP) could you work up a good mailing address to you that skips UUCP altogether? -- tale@rpitsmts.bitnet, tale%mts@itsgw.rpi.edu, tale@pawl.rpi.edu