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> 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

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