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- From: martins@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Martin Schwenke)
- Subject: Re: ADT - An FTP frontend for Aminet sites
- In-Reply-To: umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch's message of 10 Aug 92 08:14:40 GMT
- Message-ID: <MARTINS.92Aug14131046@drab.spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au>
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- Organization: University of New South Wales
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- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 03:10:46 GMT
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- >>>>> On 10 Aug 92 08:14:40 GMT, umueller@amiga.physik.unizh.ch (Urban D. Mueller) said:
-
- > TITLE
- >
- > ADT 1.0 - The Aminet Download Tool (an FTP frontend)
- > <...>
- > ADT is to ftp what elm is to mail. It lets you select
- > files using the cursor keys and download them by simply
- > pressing 'd'. You can sort files, find files, and do many
- > other convenient things.
- > <...>
-
- For those who use GNU Emacs:
-
- "ange-ftp" is a package for GNU Emacs which allows you to do the same
- things, but for any ftp site.
-
- - finding a file on a remote machine is as simple as prepending
- "/username@remotehost:" to file names.
-
- - file name completion is supported.
-
- - dired (directory editting) is supported.
-
- - "anonymous" usernames have a default password (email address?).
-
- - for non-"anonymous" usernames a (hidden) password is prompted for.
-
- A sample "ftp" session looks like:
-
- ^X^F (find-file): /anonymous@archie.au:/micros/amiga
-
- <after a few second Emacs responds with dired buffer for this directory>
-
- <move cursor to directory "incoming">
-
- f (dired-find-file)
-
- <Emacs responds with dired buffer for the above directory>
-
- <move cursor to directory "utils">
-
- f (dired-find-file)
-
- <Emacs responds with dired buffer for the above directory>
-
- <move cursor to file "IconTools.lzh">
-
- f (dired-find-file)
-
- <kilobyte count not previously noticed winds up to 78k in message
- area, IconTools.lzh binary stuff appears in new buffer>
-
- ^X^W (write-file): ~/tmp/IconTools.lzh
-
- <file written locally>
-
- ^XK (kill-buffer) <RET>
-
- <back to dired for utils>
- .
- .
- .
-
- <kill all dired buffers for this session, and select buffer
- "*ftp anonymous@archie.au*", quit from ftp, and kill buffer>
-
- Back to what we were doing before. The network was totally
- transparent, except for the augmented filename for the initial
- "find-file", and the friendly quit of the ftp session which was
- technically not necessary...
-
- I hope there's enough Emacs users out there to appreciate this!!!
- ange-ftp should be available at all good unix-emacs-lisp ftp sites.
- Try using archie... I don't know where our copy came from...
-
- peace & happiness,
- martin
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