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

[Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)]

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 have to frob browse-url.el a bit, of course, since it normally
invokes W3 to _display_ the URL, rather than to _download_ it.
Another idea would be to do M-x find-file-at-point RET on an ange-ftp
file name.

Can you try to explain so that I can better understand what you're
trying to achieve?

kai
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