Re: Ending ftp sessions (was Re: Some general usage questions)
loader@maths.ox.ac.uk
Wed, 9 Nov 1994 15:05:21 GMT
>> I didn't know there was a way to even do background file copies with
>> ange-ftp?! I find it very frustrating that I can't anything in Emacs if
>> I start up an ange-ftp remote file copy. I have wait until it's complete
>> before Emacs will pay furthur attention to me. Are you implying that
>> there's a way around this?
>The ange-ftp/dired combination that worked with GNU Emacs 18 (and may work
>with XEmacs) used to copy files in the background if the dired and ange-ftp
>files were compiled with Jamie Zawinski's improved byte-compiler beforehand.
>When RMS ported ange-ftp (and dired) to FSF GNU Emacs 19 the functionality
>disappeared.
This is not quite true, at least here (FSF 19.22, RMS-angeftp). You can
start copying a single file, and type C-g, and the copy goes into the
background ok. If you do that on a multi-file transfer, then the current
file gets copied, but when that finishes, subsequent files are not copied.
R.