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Hi,

I want to use the real file-attributes, not the ange-ftp
overloaded one.  In other words, how do I stop this:

(file-attributes "/ftp.geocities.com:/")

from opening a ftp connection?

I see this line in
(put 'file-attributes 'ange-ftp 'ange-ftp-file-attributes)
in ange-ftp.el

so I tried:
(put 'file-attributes 'ange-ftp 'file-attributes)

but this causes infinite recursion when I eval 

(file-attributes "/ftp.geocities.com:/")

Thanks.

-kin