Joe Stoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Should handlers be provided within rcp.el for a whole range of
> possible remote systems? (This is how ange-ftp.el does it, and
> presumably lots of the code could be re-used.) Should there be
> an extra field in the method record saying which system to
> expect at the other end? Or should the rcp.el try to establish
> that by probing? Or should it do a customisable test on the
> host name (as ange-ftp does it)?
Hm. At the moment, rcp.el expects a Unixish system at the remote
end. Hm. But I have learned that it is possible to run an ssh daemon
on NT, too. So in principle it would be possible to use rcp.el to
connect to an NT machine, as well.
But so many parts of rcp.el require a Bourne-ish shell and Unixish
utilities!
Do you really think it is worth trying to make rcp.el work for remote
systems other than Unix?
kai
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