Subject: Re: What're MULE and ang-ftp?

From: D-P Deng <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1993 22:23:07 -0400

>From FAQ.Mule

A-1: What is Mule?

  Mule is an enhancement of GNU Emacs.  It supports a multi-lingual
  environment.

  Mule has the following features:
   * It can handle not only ASCII characters (7 bit) and ISO Latin-1
     characters (8 bit), but also 16 bit characters like Japanese,
     Chinese, and Korean.  Furthermore Mule can have a mixture of
     languages in a single buffer.
   * You can set different coding systems for file input/output,
     keyboard input, and inter-process communication.
   * When not in the multi-lingual mode, it behaves almost like GNU
     Emacs.

A-2: How can I get Mule?

  Mule is available via anonymous FTP from:

        etlport.etl.go.jp: /pub/mule
        sh.wide.ad.jp: ~ftp/JAPAN/mule

  Please use sh.wide.ad.jp unless you are in Japan.

  Both the complete tar file of Mule and the diff file to GNU Emacs
  18.58 are available.  Please take the diff file if you already have
  GNU Emacs.

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>From README.Mule
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3. SUPPORTED SYSTEMS

Basically, Mule runs on any systems (and machines) on which
GNU Emacs runs.  In addition, several systems (including
MS-DOS) are supported.  See etc/MACHINES.
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Some extracted info about ange-ftp

;; -*-Emacs-Lisp-*-
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
;;
;; File:         ange-ftp.el
;; RCS:          $Header: ange-ftp.el,v 4.20 92/08/14 17:04:34 ange Exp $
;; Description:  transparent FTP support for GNU Emacs
;; Author:       Andy Norman, [email-masked]
;; Created:      Thu Oct 12 14:00:05 1989
;; Modified:     Fri Aug 14 17:03:57 1992 (Ange) ange@anorman
;;
;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

;;; Description:
;;;
;;; This package attempts to make accessing files and directories using FTP
;;; from within GNU Emacs as simple and transparent as possible.  A subset of
;;; the common file-handling routines are extended to interact with FTP.

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;;; Usage:
;;;
;;; Some of the common GNU Emacs file-handling operations have been made
;;; FTP-smart.  If one of these routines is given a filename that matches
;;; '/user@host:path' then it will spawn an FTP process connecting to machine
;;; 'host' as account 'user' and perform its operation on the file 'path'.
;;;
;;; For example: if find-file is given a filename of:
;;;
;;;   /ange@anorman:/tmp/notes
;;;
;;; then ange-ftp will spawn an FTP process, connect to the host 'anorman' as
;;; user 'ange', get the file '/tmp/notes' and pop up a buffer containing the
;;; contents of that file as if it were on the local filesystem.  If ange-ftp
;;; needed a password to connect then it would prompt the user in the
;;; minibuffer.

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;;; The latest version of ange-ftp can usually be obtained via anonymous ftp
;;; from:
;;;     alpha.gnu.ai.mit.edu:ange-ftp/ange-ftp.tar.Z
;;; or:
;;;     ugle.unit.no:/pub/gnu/emacs-lisp/ange-ftp.tar.Z
;;; or:
;;;   archive.cis.ohio-state.edu:pub/gnu/emacs/elisp-archive/packages/ange-ftp.tar.Z

;;; The archives for ange-ftp-lovers can be found via anonymous ftp under:
;;;
;;;     ftp.reed.edu:pub/mailing-lists/ange-ftp/

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