Non-patch for zftp

Non-patch for zftp

[Peter Stephenson]

I've made some changes to zftp; since it applies to pws-8 and I'm about to
produce pws-9, it seems pointless to post it separately, but here is a list
of changes that will appear.

1. The functions in Misc/zftp-functions now avoid using zftp in subshells,
since I discovered that on Irix 6.2 it doesn't work --- the control fd is
invalid after a fork().  That's strange, since I vaguely thought I'd
originally tried it there and it did work.  However, I haven't been able to
track down any change which has affected this.  It's OK on every other OS
I've tested (the Linux box is currently down).

2. The zf* functions now have auto-open capability:  if the connection
times out, `zftp test' should be able to spot this and the functions will
transparently re-open the connection --- assuming you set it up in the
usual way with zfopen.  Also, if you explicitly close the connection, a
zfcd or zfdir will re-open it permanently while zfget will open it just for
that file grab (etc.).

3. There are more `return 6' statements in the source; 6 is the special
code for `don't even think about doing anything else', so this ought to
reduce the incidence of multiple error messages.

4. New Functions/Completion/_zftp:  currently this uses the old-style
completion functions zfget_match and zfcd_match, but it could be made
smarter.  (For example, prefix handling of directories can now be done as
if they were real directories.)

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