Announcing EFS 1.24 =================== This is to announce the release of EFS 1.24, a system for transparent file-transfer via ftp. Highlights as compared with 1.24: - Updates for support of VMS hosts. - Better locale support. - Better support for GNU Emacs - Various bug fixes Highlights as compared with 1.23: - Tolerates working with an ftp client that tries RFC 2428 commands (such as EPSV). Highlights as compared with 1.22: - Tolerates working with an ftp client that tries RFC 2428 commands (such as EPSV). Highlights as compared with 1.20: - Better support for VMS servers. - Better support for Tandem Guardian servers. - Better support for GNU Emacs. - Bug fixes. Highlights as compared with 1.19: - Lots of bug fixes and support for newer ftp servers. - Support for XEmacs on Cygwin, thanks to Ben Wing. - Support for a number of broken or idiosyncratic ftp clients. Look specifically at the variables `efs-ftp-broken-quote' and `efs-send-progress-off' which require manual customization. Highlights as compared with 1.18: - Through an ugly hack, EFS should work with wu-ftpd 2.6.0 - There is support for the sidewinder ftp proxy. - VM support is gone. Highlights as compared with 1.17: - Copying remote-to-remote should work better. - Should work under XEmacs 21 on NT. Highlights as compared with 1.16: - Running on GNU Emacs should be smoother. In particular, Noah Friedman's cust-stub.el is included. - EFS should work better with Tandem ftp servers and NCFtpd. - EFS respects `backup-inhibited'. - EFS displays the transfer rate along with the transfer statistics. - Remote-to-remote copying should work now. - Other minor bug fixes. EFS 1.24 is available from http://www-pu.informatik.uni-tuebingen.de/users/sperber/software/efs/ For the maintainers, Mike Sperber Enjoy!