Re: cpio-mode version 0.08

[Robert Pluim]

Douglas Lewan <address@hidden> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:10 PM, Michael Albinus <address@hidden>
> wrote:
>
>> Douglas Lewan <address@hidden> writes:
>>
>> > Michael,
>>
>> Hi Doug,
>>
>> > So far, I've downloaded source for emacs 26.1 and built it
>> > (in a somewhat hobbled development environment -- no X development,
>> > no image support, without gnutls).
>> > I've loaded tramp and url-tramp and opened test files (with names
>> > ending in '.cpio).
>> > All I get is "File not found and directory is write-protected".
>> >
>> > I assume I'm missing something. Can you help?
>>
>> tramp-archive.el is new in Emacs 27 and Tramp 2.4. So you might use
>> latest sources from either Emacs or Tramp repository.
>>
>
> Forgive me, but I don't know where the latest sources are.
> People write of them, but don't give explicit references.
>

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs.git

will get you the latest emacs sources, which comes with tramp version
2.4.0-pre

Robert