Re: Difficulty forcing tramp over ange-ftp

[Kai Großjohann]

"Jeremiah C. Foster" <address@hidden> writes:

> I had tramp working well but then I trashed my .emacs file impatiently while 
> installing Debian and am stuck in an insecure place.
>
> I have compiled tramp into emacs when I installed Debian, I have this in my 
> .emacs file: (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/tramp/")
> (require 'tramp)
>
> However when I type: /address@hidden:/ I get Ange-ftp loading and 
> transmitting the 
> password. 
>
> What must I do to make emacs use tramp?

It seems you're using an old version of Tramp.  The most recent
version of Tramp is available from
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/tramp.

The old version of Tramp uses /address@hidden/path/to/file as the file
name format.  (The new version still uses this format on XEmacs.)
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