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>>>>> "Carl" == cedman@lynx.ps.uci.edu (Carl Edman) writes:

Carl> As far as I know there isn't [documentation for ange-ftp] (except the
Carl> short text at the beginning of the source)

You are right.  I haven't written any documentation for ange-ftp.el apart from
a short description at the top of the source and documentation for all the
"interesting" functions and variables used.  Basically, just byte-compile it
and load it to get the extended functionality.  After that, most GNU Emacs
operations on filenames which look like:

  /user@host:/path

will be intercepted by ange-ftp and the "correct" FTP thing will be done
behind the scenes.  Note that both the filename syntax is user-customizable,
and that the "user@" can be omitted as Carl has done in his example.

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.

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.

If anyone has questions about ange-ftp.el, please e-mail me directly and I'll
try to help out.

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