From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: how to find out methods for tramp? Date: 19 Jun 2002 14:32:17 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5xk7ovqwj2.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1024486407 17491 127.0.0.1 (19 Jun 2002 11:33:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:33:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bob@rattlesnake.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17KdiI-0004Y0-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:33:26 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Ke9T-0005A4-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 14:01:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Kdi4-00041V-00; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:33:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17Kdgb-0003wK-00 for ; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 07:31:41 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (kfs2.local.filanet.dk [192.168.1.182]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 356687C016; Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:31:38 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4983 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4983 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Gro=DFjohann) writes: > Maybe the right way to explain it is to start from the user's > situation. We should get the user to log in to the remote host from > the command line. The command used there will tell us something > about which methods are applicable. >=20 > Then we could tell the user to issue commands like "type mimencode" > and "type uuencode", as you have used. This will tell us more about > the applicable methods. Can't you write some code in elisp which does this sort of thing automatically, and determines the best method to use for a given system? >=20 > Another thing to say is that people should start with inline methods > and try to get that working first. If the inline method works but > turns out to be too slow, they can still work on getting an > out-of-band method to work. The automated detection can try the inline methods first, and only look for out-of-band methods if none of the inline methods work. --=20 Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk