[Mac-emacs-users] ange-ftp on current CVS version

[Clay J. <cla...@ma...>]

I downloaded the source from CVS a couple of days ago, and everything 
went fine.  My only issue is I cannot open remote files.

When I try to open:

/user@host:/path/to/file

Emacs tries to use tramp (did it always?), and I get a 'sm' mode error. 
  When I add the following line to my .emacs file:

(setq tramp-default-method "ftp")

which is supposed to forward all requests to ange-ftp, I get:

symbol's value as variable is void: ange-ftp-name-format

When I issue:

m-x load-library
and then: ange-ftp

I get:

Wrong type argument: stringp, (t -1 -1 -1 (0 0) (0 0) -1 "d?????????" 
nil ...)

That's as far as I can get.  Why is ange-ftp not used by default 
anymore?  I had never looked in to how remote file editing actually 
worked, it always just worked.  Any ideas?

Thanks,

Clay