Can I use neething to do this....

Can I use neething to do this....

[Mark Denovich]

I was thinking it would be really cool to have a newsgroup
representing my home directory on a remote machine.  This way I'd have
point and click access to my files by using ange-ftp and nneething.

I set the address to /username@host:~  but it seems to fetch the full
file for everyfile...  

I guess I could just make a menu-button with dired and ange-ftp...  I
just like telling my friends the crazy things that can be done with a
newsreader.  

	--Mark

Re: Can I use neething to do this....

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Mark Denovich <madst38@pitt.edu> writes:

> I was thinking it would be really cool to have a newsgroup
> representing my home directory on a remote machine.  This way I'd have
> point and click access to my files by using ange-ftp and nneething.
> 
> I set the address to /username@host:~  but it seems to fetch the full
> file for everyfile...  

Yes, it tries to compile something that looks like a summary buffer,
so it reads the first 2k bytes (I think) of every file.  Of course,
ange-ftp doesn't allow that -- it fetches the complete file.

> I guess I could just make a menu-button with dired and ange-ftp...  I
> just like telling my friends the crazy things that can be done with a
> newsreader.  

dired really is better than nneething to browse directories, strangely
enough.  :-)

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