Re: forwarded message from Lionel Fourquaux
On 22.06.01 at 08:48, Stephen J. Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
wrote:
The "right" solution to this kind of problem (short of AI)
is to make
the program speak the language that EFS expects.
Well, I'd argue that the "right" solution is to speak FTP directly using
either internal protocol support or some library. I've seen the "we'll just
fake user input to an interactive FTP client" fail. Repeatedly.
Spectacularly. This is one example; the kerberized ftp in Red Hat another.
OTOH, doing FTP protocol support in Lisp may be a /leeetle/ overkill as
concerns this particular problem. :-)