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Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl> writes:

> (defadvice tramp-maybe-open-connection 
>   (around set-process-connection-type)
>   "Set process-connection-type to pty."
>   (let ((process-connection-type 'pty))
>     ad-do-it))
> (ad-activate 'tramp-maybe-open-connection)

Cool.  I've now added code in tramp-maybe-open-connection to do this.
I hope it works.  Will commit when Savannah is back up.

Kai