On 07/05/09 16:58, Christian Bogen wrote: > Hi! > > I'm having trouble with the spell file installation for gVim on Windows > (Vista Business, German). > > It seems I have to launch gVim as administrator, otherwise it won't work > at all. > > Then I enter ":set spell spelllang=de" and gVim ask me whether I'd like > to download the spell file. I click on "Yes" and a console window is > opened (see screenshot). After that nothing happens, no matter how long > I wait. (Of course I tried disabling the firewall etc. but to no avail.) > > I've known the process to work flawlessly on Mac OS X and Linux. > > Any hints what I'm doing wrong? > > Thanks in advance! > > Chris
I don't know if it's you, the spell interface, or whatever. From what I remember of when I used to be on XP, there is an ftp utility installed as part of Windows. However, I always used interactively, and I don't know which command-line switches it accepts, if any. In addition, I see that the sdtdin to that ftp utility comes from a temporary file, and another possibility would be that the commands in the file are perhaps incompatible with the Windows version of ftp -- and since the stdout is redirected too, you never see what ftp "thinks" it is telling a human user. If you can find out where the file is downloaded from, and how the file is named, you could get it yourself manually, either by pointing your browser to ftp://ftp.whatever.tld/some/path/to/ then using "Right-click => Save Link Target As" on the desired file, or by means of the ftp command-line utility, where you may find the following commands useful (also useful if you try to understand the redirected stdin): At the cmd.exe prompt: ftp start the utility but don't yet access a server ftp ftp.whatever.tld start the utility at a given server At the ftp prompt: help which commands are available? help <command> tell me what <command> is for usage <command> tell me how to invoke <command> open ftp.whatever.tld connect to the server ftp.whatever.tld cd <directory> change the current remote directory pwd tell me the current remote directory lcd <directory> change the current local directory lpwd tell me the current local directory ls list contents of the current remote directory ls <name-with-wildcards> list only part of the contents of the remote dir !<command> run the local command <command> get <filename> get the remote file <filename> without renaming get <remote-file> <local-file> get the remote file <remote-file> and save it under a different name bye disconnect "cleanly" then exit close disconnect from the current server but don't exit ...etc... When "opening" a server, ftp will probably ask you a username and a password. Unless you have received a particular username and password for that server, try "anonymous" (without the quotes) as the username and your email address (or, if you prefer anonymity, [email protected] or similar) as the password. Best regards, Tony. -- Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most Souls would scarcely get your Feet wet. Fall not in Love, therefore: it will stick to your face. -- National Lampoon, "Deteriorata" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_use" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
