On Fri, Jul 21, 2000 at 09:21:36AM -0700, Paul Lew wrote:
> Just found out when I issue 'ls -t' command the sort was done
> incorrectly.
lftp does not sort file listing, it relies on server to do that.
In fact ls options are just passed to server intact.
> BTW, is 2.2.2 the latest version?
no, 2.2.4 is.
> Also, in emacs, I can setup symbolic links:
>
> > ln -s ftp://ftp.scriptics.com/pub/tcl tcl
>
> Then I can read this file which cause the open of the ftp to that
> site. Maybe this can be done by adding a switch to lftp, e.g.,
>
> > lftp -i tcl
>
> If argument after -i is a symlink, read the link and open that site.
> One nice thing about this idea is you can have a collection of sites
> stored in filesystem just like the bookmarks.
Well, lftp does have bookmarks. They are more convenient than such symlinks,
because you don't have to be in the same directory or type whole path.
--
Alexander.
