Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote: > Nelson E. Ingersoll wrote: >> I'm having a problem with the Tramp/Ange-FTP which comets with Emacs32 >> 20070501 (patched and unpatched). I have set the variable >> tramp-default-method to "ftp" so that I am forcing the use of ange-ftp. >> Tramp plays even less well with Tru64. >> >> When I connect to a Tru64 4.0d system, running it's "FTP server >> Digital >> UNIX Version 5.60" everything appears to work fine. However, when I >> save my >> work the save "hangs" for a long time. The file is written successfully >> almost immediately; however, Emacs hangs and the modification flag in the >> status bar at the bottom does not change from *'s to dashes. The hang >> will >> clear successfully after, literally, a minute or two. A CTRL-G will also >> clear the hang, though the status bar and buffer write-status remain >> set as >> "changed, not saved". >> >> I can use the exact same setup and perform the exact same action to >> log >> onto, modify, and save a file to Linux or Sun systems without any obvious >> trouble. Therefore, it appears to be something to do with Tru64's FTP >> server. >> >> An old version of ange-ftp (1.14?) does NOT have this problem. >> However, >> it does have trouble working with Tramp and can't perform a simple >> filename >> completion because of changes to the code. >> >> Has anyone else experienced a similar problem using EmacsW32 ange-ftp >> with Tru64's FTP? If so, did you fix it? >> >> - Nelson >> >> >> EmacsW32: GNU Emacs 22.0.99.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2007-05-01 on >> LENNART-69DE564 (patched) & unpatched. >> Tramp: 2.0.55 >> ftp: Both gnuwin32 ftp.exe and C:\windows\system32\ftp.exe >> ftpd: FTP server (Digital UNIX Version 5.60) > > Did you try the ftp.exe that comes with EmacsW32? > > Someone reported a similar problem before. I do not remember if that was > you. >
Unmentioned in the text but listed below is that I did indeed try both the GnuWin32 FTP program which comes with EmacsW32 as well as the Microsoft program. This is a problem with how ange-ftp/tramp works with Tru64 UNIX. <sigh> - Nelson
