Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!mcgill-vision!bloom-beacon!snorkelwacker!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcso!hpfinote!hpfijbm!jbm From: jbm@hpfijbm.HP.COM (Jim Moy) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: ange-ftp: ftp support for GNU Emacs Message-ID: <15020003@hpfijbm.HP.COM> Date: 6 Feb 90 15:07:33 GMT References: Organization: HP Colorado Integrated Circus Division Lines: 31 > P.S. This package is not a replacement for ftp.el that comes in the standard > GNU Emacs distribution. Andy is too modest here. This package *should* eventually become a replacement for the ftp.el that comes with GNU. I have been using it for a few months (Andy released it within HP first) and I have found it to be an essential tool since I do a lot of editing of files on remote machines. Its interface is much nicer than the various remote editing packages I've seen come by, its links to dired in particular. It is especially effective on a local subnet because both the passwords and the ftp processes are kept around making subsequent accesses to files very fast, compared to ftp.el or some other packages which used rcp. The only thing ftp.el does better is put transfers in the background for slow net connections. If ange-ftp had a way to easily specify a background transfer (not trivial since it implements changes to lower level functions, not just elisp commands), I'd have no problem with folding it into GNU and chucking ftp.el. Jim Moy Design Methods & Systems Group | jbm@hpfcla jbm%hpfcla@hplabs.hp.com Colorado Integrated Circuits Division | hplabs!hpfcla!jbm Jim MOY /HPC500/UX Building 2 Upper - Mail Stop 72 | 3404 East Harmony Road | "What the heck is feminine protection, Hewlett Packard, Ft. Collins CO 80525 | anyways, a chartreuse flamethrower?" Telnet: 229-3181 Bell: (303)229-3181 | -Portney