Re: [h-e-w] ftp problem

[Stephen Leake]

Chris McMahan <address@hidden> writes:

> The problem is AFAIK that the ftp program doesn't pipe the output to
> std out, so the emacs shell never sees it.

That's not quite right. The problem is that when ftp runs under Emacs,
it doesn't realize that stdin/stdout is an interactive terminal, so it
uses buffered input/output.

> Is there a reason you are using ftp, and not ange-ftp?

Ange-ftp is definitely the way to go; it makes the remote disk look
like a local disk.

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