Matthew Swift writes: >The problem is I can't use ange-ftp because the terminal process is >screwy and can't be parsed properly. When I try to open >"/swift:acs:", I type in my password, and it connects, but then dies >because it can't parse the ftp buffer, which looks like this:
At a guess this has to do with the readline support in the ftp client. To work around the problem, set the variable ange-ftp-ftp-program-name to "dumbftp" and create a program called dumbftp somewhere in your path... #!/bin/sh unset TERM ftp "$@" Remember to make it executable. This solved the problem for me with 19.28-3, which is a bit old now... I don't know if the bug is present in the latest Emacs. I tried setting ange-ftp-ftp-program-name to "TERM=dumb ftp" but Emacs wasn't having any. > popclient: clearbiffbit: fchmod: Operation not permitted > > popclient: restorebiffbit: fchmod: Operation not permitted > >I tried to see what's going on with strace, but I could not add >anything to the above information: sure enough, in the one case an >fchmod() call fails. The file descriptor that fchmod() operates on is >0 in both cases, but I can't find an open() that returns 0 -- is zero >the stdin? I also find this occurs in some situations. 0 is indeed stdin. I assume there is some convention somewhere that one sets the execute bit on a terminal to indicate that mail has arrived, though I know nothing about that. IME the presence of the messages doesn't seem to stop anything working. ttfn/rjk
