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History of TRAMP
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Development was started end of November 1998.  The package was called
`rssh.el', back then.  It only provided one method to access a file,
using `ssh' to log in to a remote host and using `scp' to transfer the
file contents.  After a while, the name was changed to `rcp.el', and
now it's TRAMP.  Along the way, many more methods for getting a remote
shell and for transferring the file contents were added.  Support for
VC was added.

   The most recent addition of major features were the multi-hop methods
added in April 2000 and the unification of TRAMP and Ange-FTP filenames
in July 2002.