Re: Tramp and VMS - I know it doesn't work but...

[Michael Albinus]

"Nelson E. Ingersoll" <address@hidden> writes:

>> Disabling Tramp completely shall be achieved by the second
>> recommendation "M-x tramp-unload-tramp". You might try this in case
>> you want to apply only Ange-FTP.
>
>    After looking at the Ange-FTP lisp code I found in the EmacsW32
> (22.0) distribution I question that this recommendation will work.
> Simply because, at least in that distribution, Ange-FTP has been
> seriously gutted with much functionality now apparently assigned to
> Tramp.  Specifically in ange-ftp.el I saw all the file-name parsing code
> commented out with a note that Tramp now performs those functions for
> Ange-FTP.

Nope. The tramp-unload-tramp function has been designed to work with
both Emacs 22 and 21 (and XEmacs). In the Emacs case, it calls
internally tramp-unload-tramp-ftp, which tries to re-enable Ange-FTP,
under all circumstances. If it doesn't work with an Emacs version 21
or 22, please let me know.

> - Nelson

Best regards, Michael.