From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Ange-FTP doesn't follow links to absolute file names Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:18:09 +0200 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049052112 32020 80.91.224.249 (30 Mar 2003 19:21:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:21:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 30 21:21:48 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18ziNI-0008Jm-00 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:21:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ziN4-0001AT-05 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:21:34 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ziMZ-0000eV-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:21:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ziM7-0000QT-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:20:36 -0500 Original-Received: from relay1.tiscali.de ([62.27.55.1] helo=webmail.tiscali.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18ziKk-000830-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 14:19:10 -0500 Original-Received: from magdalene (213.54.20.194) by webmail.tiscali.de (6.0.045) id 3E7E212F004118A9; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 21:06:37 +0200 Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090017 (Oort Gnus v0.17) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4668 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4668 This bug report will be sent to the Free Software Foundation, not to your local site managers! Please write in English, because the Emacs maintainers do not have translators to read other languages for them. Your bug report will be posted to the bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org mailing list, and to the gnu.emacs.bug news group. In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GNU/LessTif Version 2.1 Release 0.93.14) of 2003-01-12 on magdalene configured using `configure --with-x-toolkit=motif' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: en_US locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug and the precise symptoms of the bug: Ange-FTP doesn't follow symbolic links to absolute file names on remote hosts like "a -> /b/c". Relative file names seem to work. Recent input: C-x C-f / m a g d a l e n e : x g n u s y x r e p o r Recent messages: Quit trying to open server Reading /tmp/home/albinus/.newsrc-news.eld... Reading /tmp/home/albinus/.newsrc-news...done Opening nntp server on news...failed Opening nntp server on news... Denied server Opening nntp server on news...failed Checking new news...done Loading emacsbug...done