Re: [XEmacs] Tramp Bug? -- Nachtrag

[Daniel Pittman]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Kai Gro wrote:
> Daniel Pittman <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> In my implementation of auto-detection, I piped the encoded data
>> through the remote decoder and looked for the correct data in the
>> output stream.
> 
> That's what I've done now, too.  It's a bit simple-minded, but oh,
> well.  New version in (Tramp's) CVS.
> 
> Actually, I should be combining the remote encoder with the local
> decoder and vice versa, but I'll leave that as a todo item for now.

*nod*  I did that and found it very reliable at detecting that my local
machine had the same software installed when using loopback SSH. ;)

Seriously, though, it was actually useful to do that because it caught a
silly bug of mine where I corrupted the BASE64 stream I was sending...

      Daniel

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