🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <ANGE.90Nov5090159@anorman.hpl.hp.com> ange@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Andy Norman) writes:
>>>>>> "Carl" == cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:
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>Carl> e.g. if you want to read a file in your Mail directory on uunet.uu.net
>Carl> with the name "foobar", you just C-x C-f (or to whatever you have bound
>Carl> the standard file open command) and enter "/uunet.uu.net:~/Mail/foobar"
>Carl> as name and your file is loaded.
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>I wouldn't recommend using either "~" or relative pathnames on the remote
>machine as ange-ftp can sometimes get confused.  This will be corrected in a
>later version, but for now, stick to absolute paths.
>

I've found it really useful to define environmental variables on my
work station that include long remote path names or often accessed
files i.e.

setenv ARTICLE '/booker@network.ucsd.edu:.article'
setenv CHEM    '/benseb@y1.sdsc.edu:/sdsc/dev/apps/chem'

It is important that these variables not end in a /, otherwise emacs will
not interpret them correctly. 

Also, Carl mentioned previously that version 3 of ange-ftp was
available at last count I had version 2. Where can we get version 3
if it's available ? 

Final hint, if you're having trouble with file-name completation but
you know the ftp server supports ls , turn off follow-symbolic-links,
some versions of ls do not support the -L option. 


- Booker C. Bense

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