Re: Dired command on same host

[Michael Albinus]

Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr> writes:

Hi Manuel,

>> What will it be good for? It copies also via your local tmp directory,
>> doesn't it?
>
> My intent was to use scp default "-3" behaviour when source and
> destination are remote hosts. Why? Because this behaviour works without
> filling up my local (small) /tmp directory whereas tramp does. I don't
> know how it works but it seems that a "scp hostA:file hostB:" does not
> use /tmp.

Interesting. Honestly, I have no idea where the scp program buffers the
local temp data. Perhaps it is better to use this, indeed.

Best regards, Michael.