--bug report follows this line-- I have write permission on the remote file, but emacs loads the buffer w/ read-only permission. Here are the tramp_file_attributes from the debug-buffer: $ tramp_file_attributes /home/mh2/modules/diag_manager/diag_output.f90 (nil 1 2137 69 (15116 34555) (15116 32356) (15116 32944) 22482 33188 t (8 . 38854) (24 10)) (I have no idea what this means ...) Some files come with their permission preserved, although when I C-x C-s, I get a final error msg: $ 2>/dev/nullecho tramp_exit_status $? /bin/ksh: /dev/nullecho: cannot create: Permission denied although the file is written OK. Thanks, Matt Harrison Emacs : GNU Emacs 20.7.1 (i386-mandrake-linux-gnu, X toolkit) of Tue Apr 3 2001 on bi.mandrakesoft.com Package: tramp ($Id: tramp.el,v 2.19 2001/05/02 22:15:29 grossjoh Exp $) current state: ============== (setq tramp-ls-command nil tramp-test-groks-nt nil tramp-file-exists-command nil tramp-current-multi-method nil tramp-current-method nil tramp-current-user nil tramp-current-host nil tramp-auto-save-directory "/tmp" tramp-default-method "sm1" tramp-rsh-end-of-line "\n" tramp-remote-path '("/bin" "/usr/bin" "/usr/sbin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/ccs/bin" "/local/bin" "/local/freeware/bin" "/local/gnu/bin" "/usr/freeware/bin" "/usr/pkg/bin") tramp-login-prompt-regexp ".*ogin: *$" tramp-password-prompt-regexp "^.*\\([pP]assword\\|passphrase.*\\):
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