Re: Request for opinions as to feasibility of a Gnus application.

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:
> 
> > However, I'd like to give the users the means within Gnus to download
> > these large files to their local machines, if desired.  To do so, I'd
> > like to create a new decoding command within Gnus which, for any
> > selected articles, would create an asynchronous process which uses FTP
> > or HTTP or rsync or something similar (yet to be decided and possibly
> > even configurable at run time) to download the associated large files
> > to a user-specified location on the local machine.
> 
> I think I don't grok what you're trying to do, as you can see from the
> following stupid question: why don't you put a URL in the article and
> then use W3 to download the URL?

You'd still want to hack something up to start it asynchronously.  By
default Emacs/W3 does not do asynch downloads.  And to get asynch fetches
with efs/ange-ftp, you would need to use copy-file intead of find-file.

-bp