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On Wed, 7 May 1997, Laine Stump wrote:

> Laine Stump writes:
>
> [problems with ftp under emacs' ange-ftp]
> 
>         Although there is no RFC or other document describing what the
> interface to ftp is, there is a general concensus of its behavior, it
> is used by lots of scripts and other programs, and it should be
> predictable - if any of the enhanced features of ftp get in the way,
> they should be turned off by default and only come on when a particular
> switch is given. If people want the enhanced behavior by default, let
> ftp look at an environment variable called FTP_FLAGS or something to get
> their desires. But *please* don't break existing applications with
> non-backward compatible operation; that is just plain counter-productive.
> 
	How about checking if the stdin is a tty and defaulting to
	'no command line completion & no progress meter' if not?

	That should give the default 'best' behaviour for both interactive
	and scripts?

                David/abs               abs@anim.dreamworks.com

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