[ On Tuesday, October 12, 1999 at 09:39:52 (-0400), Charles Karney wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: sftp
>
> Of course it is sometimes programs that have difficulty learning and
> adapting!
True enough. However except for rare exceptions FTP has been difficult
to use programmatically anyway....
> But, unfortunately, the current implementation of sftp is completely
> useless for interfacing to other programs. (The last version I tries was
> 2.0.12. I think the same applies to 2.0.13.)
>
> Case in point: sftp with ange-ftp in Emacs.
As I understand it there's no need to use FTP with Emacs -- you should
be able to use scp as an rcp replacement, and from what I've been told
(and what I've read in various forums), Emacs will be quite happy with
it (I don't use ange-ftp -- it rather annoys me far too much! ;-).
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