Re: forwarded message from Lionel Fourquaux

Terje> On 22.06.01 at 08:48, Stephen J. Turnbull Terje> <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; wrote: Terje> Well, I'd argue that the "right" solution is to speak FTP Yes. To the FTP problem. "This kind of problem" refers specifically to message catalog substitution in communicating with external processes. N.B. I suspect that one reason for the EFS implementation is to take advantage of the forked process to allow Emacs to continue working while FTP is downloading, which is time-consuming and error-prone. Forking off an FTP is much less expensive than forking off an inferior XEmacs just to speak FTP. :-) So the "right" solution is really to implement a multithreaded Emacs, and then teach one of the threads to speak FTP. buwhahahahaha... -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."