Re: Tramp, FTP and zftp builtin command ?

[Michael Albinus]

Xavier Maillard <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,

Hi,

>
> I am a zsh shell user and I have just discovered zsh provided a
> builtin command to deal with FTP: zftp and family.
>
> I tried to use this feature in conjunction with Tramp in FTP
> mode but it failed.
>
> Has anyone just tried the same ?
>
> Subsidiary question: is there a way to use lftp with Tramp for
> FTP ? AFAIK, I never succeeded using lftp with ange-ftp and
> tramp only netkit-ftp (ie. the basic ftp client) worked out of
> the box.
>
> Can anyone help with this two questions ?

Tramp hasn't an own FTP protocol engine. All FTP access is forwarded
to ange-ftp (Emacs) or efs (XEmacs).

> Greetings,
>
> Xavier

Best regards, Michael.