tower@PREP.AI.MIT.EDU (Leonard H. Tower Jr.) (06/22/87)
Date: Sat, 20 Jun 87 21:12:45 PDT From: silvlis!funk!zeev@Sun.COM (Ze'ev Wurman) Can anybody explain why various ftp functions do not try to read the ~/.netrc file if it exists and extract various userid/password data from there as regular ftp does? It would be necessary then to prompt only for host:fileid, which is obviously much handier. Current form still may be needed when one wants to ftp to a host existing in his .netrc file but to a different userid. Zeev ------------------------------------------- Silvar Lisco, 1080 Marsh Rd. Menlo Park, CA No one has submitted the code yet. You could!! Might have a look at the way .mailrc is handled in rmail-mode, though you might think of a better way to do this. -len