>Date: Wed, 7 May 1997 18:27:12 -0400 (EDT)
>From: codewarrior@daemon.org (Andrew Brown)
>
>>> 	How about checking if the stdin is a tty and defaulting to
>>> 	'no command line completion & no progress meter' if not?
>>
>>This seems to me like it would be a reasonable thing to do. I can't
>>think of why it would ever matter, but perhaps the commandline
>>completion should be turned of if stdin isn't a tty, and the progress
>>meter should be turned off if std*out* isn't a tty.
>
>won't work.  sorry.  emacs, in its attempts to be all-encompassingly
>nice (won't get me wrong, i use it all the time :) actually runs ftp
>off a pty.
>
>so...maybe check to see if ftp's parent is emacs??!

I haven't looked closely at how the progress meter is implemented, but
shouldn't it punt if TERM is unset or set to a dumb terminal?  Usually
emacs starts subprocesses with TERM=emacs, and IIRC the termcap for
'emacs' is rather dumb.
-- 
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