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Re: Ange-FTP (was Re: NCFTP)

#199
From: Tim Ramsey
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:51
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wollman@hal.emba.uvm.edu (Garrett Wollman) writes:

>How many other Emacs maintainers are there out there who always dump
>ange-ftp into their executables?  Every single Emacs and Epoch I build
>always gets Ange-FTP and Tree Dired; I wouldn't live without them.

;; site-init.el created by tar
;; Last modified 9 November 1992 by tar: for 18.59

;; Prompt before executing local variables section.  Local variables are
;; major security risks since 1) they appear at the bottom of the file,
;; which is usually out of sight and 2) they can do anything emacs can
;; do, including running shell commands.
(setq inhibit-local-variables t)

;; News is in a non-standard place
(setq news-path "/news/spool/news/")

;; Load some non-default packages into Emacs

;; VM, a "mail user agent" (mail reader)
(load "vm")

;; Supercite, a mail/news citing package
(load "sc")

;; Calc, a calculator package
(load "calc")
(load "macedit")

;; Ange-ftp -- allows transparent editing via FTP
(load "ange-ftp")

;; Calendar/Holiday/Diary
(load "holidays")
(load "calendar")
(load "diary")
(load "appt")

hilbert% l -g emacs  # a Sun 4/330 running 4.1.1
1928 -rwxr-xr-x  2 root     staff     1966080 Nov  9 20:00 emacs

-- 
    Tim Ramsey, 913.532.6750  |  I'm a sysadmin and I'm okay;
    Department of Mathematics |  I work all night and I sleep all day.
    Kansas State University   |
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From: tar@math.ksu.edu (Tim Ramsey)
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Subject: Re: Ange-FTP (was Re: NCFTP)
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Date: 25 Jan 1993 01:51:28 -0600
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