Hiho... I use a fairly vanilla Debian-9.93R6 system, with emacs-19.29-4, netstd-1.25-1, and ncftp-2.1.0-1. I also have emacs-el-19.29-1.
When I try to use Emacs to FTP files (using Ange-FTP, which comes with Emacs), it fails because Emacs can't handle the output from /usr/bin/ftp. /usr/bin/ftp is spitting out VT-100/ANSI terminal commands on its output. While Emacs can recognise "Connected to..." as a success, it's interpreting "^[[?1l^[>Connected to..." as a failure. I do not see this as a problem with Emacs. I see it as a problem with ftp. Why is the plain, old fashioned, line oriented ftp command spewing screen codes? I would have expected it from ncftp, which is Curses based, but not from the old ftp program. I also noticed that ncftp in line mode doesn't do this, but since I haven't modified emacs to use ncftp instead of ftp yet, I don't know if it will solve my problem. Ncftp's output format is slightly different from plain ftp. Should I report this as a bug to Peter Tobias? My binary for /usr/bin/ftp definately came from the netstd distribution, and I have him listed as maintainer. -- Buddha Buck 85.5 Albany Street Cazenovia, NY 13035-1216 This Space For Rent [EMAIL PROTECTED]
