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Re: ange-ftp and sftp?
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: ange-ftp and sftp? |
Date: |
06 Jun 2005 17:06:33 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 |
>>>>> "Jerry" == Jerry Sievers <jerry@jerrysievers.com> writes:
Jerry> Hello. This is on Emacs 20.7
Jerry> Wondering what it would take to have ange-ftp use sftp
Jerry> instead of regular ftp?
Jerry> The sftp requires the hostname be given as command line
Jerry> parameter rather than set using OPEN as per traditional ftp.
Jerry> Aside from this, not sure what other incompatibilities exist.
Jerry> Rather learn if this has been addressed before I try wrapping
Jerry> sftp with something that can emulate what traditional ftp
Jerry> clients expect.
It would probably be easier just to use tramp instead. I don't know if
it will do sftp, but I do know that it can tunnel directly through
ssh. I use this all the time.
I suspect that you have never tried tramp. It's a fine package!
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tramp
Phil