> > Laine Stump writes:
> >
> > [problems with ftp under emacs' ange-ftp]
> > 
David Brownlee writes:
> 	How about checking if the stdin is a tty and defaulting to
> 	'no command line completion & no progress meter' if not?

This seems to me like it would be a reasonable thing to do. I can't
think of why it would ever matter, but perhaps the commandline
completion should be turned of if stdin isn't a tty, and the progress
meter should be turned off if std*out* isn't a tty.