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Subject: Re: ange-ftp caching problems for remote nndir groups
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 23:40:44 +0000
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Lars writes:

> What is the canonical way to check whether a given filename is an
> ange-ftp filename or not?  I can think of some heuristics to use, but
> is there a fail-safe method?

Something yukky like:

(defun remote-filename-p (path)
  (if (boundp 'ange-ftp-path-format)
      (save-match-data
	(string-match (car ange-ftp-path-format) path))
    (if (boundp 'efs-path-regexp)
	(save-match-data
	  (string-match efs-path-regexp path)))))

or some similar variant might work OK.
					-- ange -- <><

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